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National 
Prohibition 
Convention 


HELD  AT 


MEMORIAL  HALL 


COLUMBUS.  OHIO 


JULY   15-16, 


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Delegates  and  Visitors  to  the  National  Prohibition  Convention  will 
find  the  three  Busy  Bee  Restaurants  ideal  places  to  dine  and  lunch 


^^  USY  BEE  COFFEE  is  famous  all  over  the  State  ;  the  bill  of  fare 
4Ja  embraces  everything  good  to  eat;  the  service  is  first-class  and  the 
— -— -—     prices  very  moderate. 

These  restaurants  are  all  conducted  on  the  pay-as-you-order 
plan.  If  you  have  a  little  appetite,  the  price  is  small;  if  you  have  a  large  ap- 
petite, the  price  is  larger.     It  is  never  excessive.  ,' 

There  is  free  phone  service  over  both  phones,  the  use  of  the  city  direcjtory, 
railroad  and  interurban  time  tables  for  the  use  of  patrons,  and  hand  baggage 
cared  for  free  of  charge. 

^  THE  CENTRAL  STORE,  located  on  High  near  Gay  street,  is  the 
most  popular  restaurant  in  the  city  and  is  largely  patronized  by  the  best  busi- 
ness element  in  Columbus.  The  men's  dining  room  at  this  store  is  well  worth 
a  visit. 

THE  NORTH  STORE,  on  High  near  Chestnut  street,  is  conveni- 
ently located  to  the  Union  Station. 

THE  SOUTH  STORE,  on  High  street  between  State  and  Town 
streets,  is  but  a  short  distance  from  the  Southern  Hotel. 

The  same  splendid  bill-of-fare  and  popular  prices 
prevail  at  all  three  establishments. 


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*  The  largest  quantity  and  best  quality  of  Prohibition  music  is  pub-  * 

*  lished  by  The  Fillmore  Music  House,  528  Elm  St.,  Cincinnati,  O.,  and  ^ 
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*  Here  is  a  list  of  some  of  their  books :  * 

*  PROHIBITIOX    SOXGS,    by   Chas.    M.    and    J.    H.    Fillmore.      224    pages.  * 

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*  ALLIANCE    EDITION,    an    abridged   edition   of    "Prohibition    Songs."      15  * 

*  cents  per  copy.  * 

*  THE    BATTLE-CRY,    by    Taylor   and    Herbert.      The    greatest    Prohibition  * 
^  song  book  ever  published.     Price  35  cents.  * 

*  THE    TEMPERANCE    SONGSTER,    by    Miss    Anna    A.    Gordon.      Cloth    35  * 

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*  DOWN  WITH  THE  LICENSED  SALOON.     Duet,  full  sheet  size,  price  50  * 
^  cents,  mailed  for  25  cents.  * 

*  MOLLY  AND  THE  BABY,  solo  and  chorus,  by  Taylor  and  Herbert.     Sheet  * 

*  music.     25  cents,  mailed  for  13  cents.  * 
%  I'D  LIKE  TO  ASK.     Solo.     Taylor  and  Herbert.     Sheet  music.     25  cents,  % 

*  mailed  for  13  cents.  ^ 

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*  Address,  FILLMORE  MUSIC  HOUSE,  * 

*  528  Elm  St.,  Cincinnati,  O.,  or            40-43  Bible  House,  New  York.  * 

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PROGRAM 

National    Convention    and    Oratorical    Contest 

OF  THE 

Intercollegiate    Prohibition  Association, 

COLUMBUS,  OHIO,  JULY  14,   1908 


MEMORIAL  HALL. 

9  :00  A.  M. Meeting  of  Executive  Committee,  Post  Hall,  No.  1. 

9  :15  A.  M.— Meeting  of  National  Contest  Orators,  Post  Hall,  No.  1. 

10:00A.M. — Convention:  Opening  Session. 
Registration  of  Delegates. 
Address  by  Pres.  D.  Leigh  Colvin. 
Business. 


1 :30  P.  M. — Convention  and  Conference,  Post  Hall,  No.  1. 
Business. 

"The   Past  Year  and   the   Next."— Report  of   General    Secre- 
tary, Harry  S.  Warner. 

3:00  P.  M.— Special  Public  Session,  Post  Hall,  No.  1. 
"TEN  MINUTE  POINTERS." 

BY  NATIONAL  LEADERS. 
''The    Purpose   of   the    College    Movement."— Pres.    D.    Leigh    Colvin, 

Chicago,  111. 
"The    College     Movement    on     the     Pacific."— L.     C.     Brown,     Coast 

Traveling  Secretary. 
"College  Men  in  the   Illinois   Legislative   Field."— Joseph    E.   Harvey, 

Traveling  Secretary. 
"College  Men  in  the  Minn.     'Out-to-Win'  Battles."— John  A.  Shields, 

University  of  Minnesota. 
"The  Student's  Part  in  the  Reform."— Ilarley  H.  Gill,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 
"Opportunities  in  1908-9."— Virgil  G.  Hinshaw,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
"The  Call  to  Service."— Daniel  A.  Poling,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Business  Session. — Election  of  National  Ofhcers. 
Adoption  of  Policies. 

8:00  P.M.— Grand     National     Oratorical     Contest,      Main     Auditorium, 
Memorial  Hall. 
Western  Orator— 190?  ;  Everet  L.  Jones,  Oregon. 

1908;  Raphael  H.  Elakesley,  California. 
Central     Orator — 1907  :  Chas.  S.  Price,  Texas. 
1908 ;  Fred  C.  Mesch,  Iowa. 
Eastern    Orator — 1907  :  Gustave  Hoelscher,  Indiana. 
1908;  Levi  T.  Pennington,  Indiana. 
Prizes— First,  $100.00  ;  Second.  $50.00  in  Gold. 

(Admission,  Main  Floor,  50  cents;  Balcony,  25  cents.) 


NATIONAL  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 


Chairman,  Charles  R.  Jones,  Evanston,  111. 

Vice  Chairman,  A.  G.  Wolfenbarger,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Secretary,  \V.  G.  Calderwood,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Treasurer,  Felix  T.  McWhirter,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Samuel  Dickey,  Albion,  Mich. 

A.  A.  Stevens,  Tyrone,  Pa. 

Finley  C.  Hendrickson,  Cumberland,  Md. 


LOCAL  COMMITTEE    ON   ARRANGEMENTS. 


Headquarters — 11  Board  of  Trade  Building.     Phone  2286  Citz. 


F.  M.  Mecartney,  Chairman. 

H.  Oscar  Nippert,  Secretary. 

John  F.  Gregg,  Treasurer. 

Daniel  A.  Poling,  Albert  Speaks,  W.  W.  Weatherman, 

E.  N.  Webb,  N.  J.  Kidwell,  H.  L.  Peeke, 

J.  C.  Daugherty,  D.  M.  Graham.  Truman  R.  Davidson. 


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NATIONAL   EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 

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THE    DUNN^TAFT    CO, 

84  to  90  North  High  St. 
At  this  stage  of  the  season  we  offer 

REMARKABLE   VALUES 

In  all  classes  of  DRY  GOODS.  Broken  Lines  and  Seasonable 
Goods  that  are  approaching  the  end  of  their  season 

Reduced  In  Price 

In   many   instances    as    low    as 
ONE-HALF    OF  ORIGINAL  PRICES. 

Staple  and  seasonable  goods  always  in  good  assortment 
at  the  lowest  market  prices. 


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THE  NORWICH 

CORNER    FOURTH    AND    STATE    STREETS.    COLUMBUS     OHIO 


Large  Pleasant  Rooms. 

Elegant  Dining  Room  on 
Sixth  Floor. 

Pure  Jersey  Milk  and 
Cream  from  our  own 
farm. 

Home  Table  a  Specialty. 


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TAKE    STATE   AND    OAK    STREET    CARS    FROM    UNION    DEPOT 


NATIONAL  COMMITTEEMEN. 

Arkansas — John  M.  Parker,  Dardanelle — H.  Brady,  Beebe. 

California — T.   K.   Beard,  Modesto — Fred  F.  Wheeler,  Los  Angeles. 

Colorado — J.  N.  Scouller,  Denver — O.  A.  Reinhardt,  Denver. 

Connecticut — Frederick  G.  Piatt,  New  Britain — E.  L.  G.  Hohenthal,  S. 
Manchester. 

Delaware — George  \^^  Todd,  Wilmington — -Ashton  R.  Tatum,  Wil- 
mington. 

Florida — John   P.   Coffin,   Eustis — Francis  Trueblood,   Bradentown. 

Georgia — R.  S.  Cheves,*  Zenith — George  Gordon,  Atlanta. 

Idaho — Aaron  ^L   Bray,   Boise — Herbert  A.   Lee,  Weiser. 

Illinois — Oliver  W.  Stewart,  Chicago — Frank   S.   Regan,   Rockford. 

Indiana — Felix   T.   McWhirter,   Indianapolis — Charles   Eckhart,  Auburn. 

Iowa — A.  U.  Coates,  Perry — Malcolm  Smith,  Cedar  Rapids. 

Kansas — Earle  R.  DeLay,  Emporia — T.  D.  Talmadge,  Hutchison. 

Kentucky — T.  B.  Demaree,  Wilmore — Mrs.  F.  E.  Beauchamp,  Lexington. 

Louisiana — E.   E.   Israel,  Baton  Rou^e — Walter  Miller,   New  Orleans. 

Maine — Volney  B.  Gushing,  Bangor — Nathan  F.  Woodbury,  Auburn. 

Maryland — Finley  C.  Hendrickson,  Cumberland — John  N.  Parker,  Balti- 
more. 

Massachusetts — John  B.  Le\\-is.  Jr.,  Boston — Flerbert  S.  Morley,  Bald- 
winville. 

Michigan- — Samuel  Dickie,  Albion — Fred  W.  Corbett,  Adrian. 

Minnesota — Bernt  B.  Flaugan,  Fergus  Falls — Geo.  W.  Higgins, 
Minneapolis. 

Missouri — Charles   E.  Stokes,  Kansas   City — H.   P.   Faris,  Clinton. 

Nebraka — ^L.   O.   Jones,    Lincoln — A.    G.    Wolfenbarger,    Lincoln. 

New  Hampshire — A.  FT.  Morrill,  Laconia^L.  F.  Richardson,  Peterboro. 

New  Jersey — Joel  G.  Van  Cise,  Summit — W.  H.  Nicholson,  Haddonfield. 

New  York— A'Vm.  T.  Ward  well,  New  York— J.  H.  Durkee,  Rochester. 

North  Carolina — Edwin  Shaver,  Salisbury — J.  N.  Templeton,  Gary. 

North  Dakota — Theo.  E.  Ostlund,  Hillsboro — M.  H.  Kiff,  Tower  City. 

Ohio — H.   F.  MacLane.  Hiram — Robert  Candy,  Columbus. 

Oklahoma — Charles  Brown,  Carmen— Rev.  J.  M.  Monroe,  Oklahoma  City. 

Oregon — F.  McKercher,  Portland — W.    P.    Elmore,  Brownsville. 

Pennsylvania — A.  A.  Stevens,  Tyrone — David  B.  McCalmont,  Franklin. 

Rhode  Island — C.  H.  Tilley,  Providence — Bernon  E.  Helme,  Kingston. 

South  Dakota— C.  V.  Templeton,  Woonsocket — F.  J.  Carlisle,  Brookings. 

Tennessee — James  A.  Tate,  Harriman — Maj.  A.  D.  Reynolds,  Bristol. 

Texas — J.  B.  Cranfill.  Dallas — E.  C.  Heath,  Rockwall. 

Vermont — Fred  L.  Page,  Barre — S.  M.  Harris,  Vergennes. 

Virginia — G.  M.  Smithdeal,  Richmond — James  W.  Bodley,  Staunton. 

^Vashington — R.    E.    Dunlap,    Seattle — Guy    Posson,    Seattle. 

West  Virginia — Edward  W.  Mills,  Fairmont — U.  A.  Clayton,  Fairmont. 

Wisconsin — J.  E.  Clayton,  Milwaukee — W.  D.  Cox,  Milwaukee. 

Wyoming — Lemuel  L.  Laughlin,  Laramie — Dr.  C.  J.  Sawyer.* 

Arizona — Frank  J.  Sibley,  Tucson — Prof.  J.  C.  Wasson,  Phoenix. 

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PROHIBITION  TRUST 
fUND    ASSOCIATION 

INCORPORATED   UNDER   THE   LAWS   OF    THE   STATE    OF   NEW    YORK. 


OFFICERS 

OLIVER  W.  STEWART,  CHARLES  E.  LATIMER, 

PRESIDENT,  SECRETARY. 

Hyde    Park,    Chicago,    III.  98   Park   Place,  Brooklyn.   N.   Y. 

WILLIAM  T.  WARDWELL,  JOHN  McKEE, 

VICE-PRESIDENT.  TREASURER, 

21   West   58th   St.,  113    Columbia   Heights. 

New  York  City.  Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 

ALFRED  L.  MANIERRE, 

COUNSEL, 
31  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City. 


WHY  NOT  REMEMBER  IT  IN  YOUR  WILL? 
Legacies  amounting  to  about  $10,000  have  been  received. 

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NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  CONVENTION 


ORDER  OF  BUSINESS  AND  RULES  OF  ORDER. 


The  following  Order  of  Business  and  Rules  of  Order  have  been 
adopted  by  the  National  Committee  for  the  government  of  the  Conven- 
tion under  its  temporary  organization;  and  the  same  is  recommended  for 
adoption  as  the  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  for  the  permanent 
organization. 

Wednesday,  July  15th,  Forenoon,  10:00  o'clock. 

l._The  Convention  will  be  in  order.     Prayer. 

2.— Address  of  Welcome,  Prof.  Aaron  S.  Watkins,  Ada,  O.,   Hon.  C.  A. 

Bond,  Mayor,  Columbus,  O. 
3 — *Temporary  Organization. 

4._Roll  Call  of  States  for  appointment  of  Convention  Committees. 
5.— Recess  until  2:00  P.  M. 

Wednesday  Afternoon,  2:00  o'clock. 

6. Report  of  Committee  on  Credentials. 

7. Report  of  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

8._Report  of  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business. 
9._Roll    Call   of    States   for   the   announcement   of   the    members   of    the 
National  Committee  and  other  nominations  by  State  delegations. 
lO.—Recess  until  8:00  P.  M. 

Wednesday  Evening,  8 :00  o'clock. 

11. Report  of  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform. 

12.— Recess  until  9:30  A.  M.,  July  16. 

(Prominent  members  of  the  party  will  address  the  convention  and  a 
chorus  of  150  voices,  led  by  Rev.  Chas.  M.  Fillmore  of  Indian- 
apolis, Ind.,  will  sing  during  the  evening.) 

Thursday  Forenoon,  July  16th,  9 :00  o'clock. 

13. — Miscellaneous  Business  until  10:00  A.  M. 

14. — National  Committee's  hour. 

15. — Nominating  Speeches. 

16.— Adjournment  until  2.00  P.  M. 

Thursday  Afternoon,  2 :00  o'clock. 

17. — Nomination  of  Presidential  candidate. 
18. — Nomination  of  Vice-Presidential  candidate. 
19. — Miscellaneous  Business. 
20. — Adjournment,  sine  die. 

Thursday  Evening,  8:00  o'clock. 
21. — Mass  Meeting,  as  directed  by  the  Convention. 

♦  NOTE The    rule    of   the   National   Committee   and    the    precedent   of    the    party    is 

not  to  announce  the  temporary  organization  until  it  has  been  adopted  by  the  Con- 
vention The  National  Committee  wiU  recommend  the  temporary  organization  for  the 
acceptance  of  the  Convention,  but  the  same  must  be  approved  by  the  Convention 
before  it  is  recognized.  On  account  of  this  rule  and  precedent,  we  are  unable  to 
publish   the   names  of  the  Temporary  Chairman  and   Secretaries   of   the  Convention. 

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*RULES  OF  ORDER 


1.  No  delegate  shall  address  the  Convention,  oti'er  a  resolution  or 
make  a  motion  until  he  has  been  recognized  by  the  Chair,  and  his  name  and 
State  announced  by  the  Chairman. 

In  case  the  Chairman  is  not  able  to  call  a  delegate  by  name,  the 
delegate,  after  being  assigned  the  floor,  shall  announce  his  own  name  and 
State,  but  shall  not  continue  his  remarks  until  the  announcement  has  been 
repeated  to  the  convention  by  the  Chairman. 

2.  The  Chairman  shall  not  assign  the  floor  to  any  delegate  who  may 
be  out  of  his  place  in  the  hall. 

3.  No  delegate  shall  speak  more  than  ten  minutes  upon  any  question 
before  the  Convention,  nor  more  than  once  upon  any  question  without 
unanimous  consent,  except  as  provided  in  rule  I'o. 

4.  A  vote  by  calling  the  roll  of  States  shall  be  taken  on  any  question 
when  the  demand  is  sustained  by  two  hundred  delegates,  in  which  case  the 
Chairman  of  each  State  shall  announce  the  number  in  his  delegation  voting 
"yea"  and  the  number  voting  "nay." 

5.  When  any  question  is  before  the  Convention  it  shall  be  in  order 
to  offer  (1)  an  amendment,  (2)  an  amendment  to  the  amendment,  (3)  a 
substitute  to  the  main  question,  and  (4)  an  amendment  to  the  substitute, 
but  in  taking  the  vote  the  order  shall  be  as  follows :  First  on  the  perfecting 
the  main  question,  then  on  the  amendment  to  the  substitute,  next  on  making 
the  substitution,  and  finally  on  the  main  or  substitute  question. 

6.  The  following  shall  not  be  debatable: 

(1)  To  adjourn. 

(2)  To  lay  on  the  table. 

(3)  To  take  from  the  table. 

(4)  The  previous  question. 

(5)  To  reconsider  when  applied  to  an  undebatable  question. 

(6)  To  fix  the  time  to  which  the  convention  will  adjourn   (when 

a  privileged  question.) 

(7)  For  the  orders  of  the  day. 

(8)  An   appeal,   but   the  appellant   may    state   the   grounds   of   his 

appeal  and  the  Chairman  his  reason  for  his  decision. 

(9)  To  suspend  the  rules. 

7.  The  following  are  privileged  questions,  taking  precedence  in  the 
order  named  : 

(1)  To  fix  the  time  to  which  the  convention  will  adjourn. 

(2)  To  adjourn. 

(3)  Questions  of  personal  privilege. 

(4)  The  orders  of  the  day. 

*NOTE — Both  the  Order  of  Business  and  the  Rules  of  Order  herein  are  suggestive 
only.     The  Convention  itself  may  change  both  at  its  will. 

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S.  The  motion  to  lav  on  the  table  may  be  apj)lie(l  tu  an  amendment 
or  a  sttbstitute  without  carrying-  the  main  question  witli  it,  and  mav  pre- 
vail upon  a  part  of  a  report  without  affecting  the  remainder. 

9.  The  previous  question  may  be  moved  upon  a  part  of  what  is  pend- 
ing", as  upon  an  amendment,  a  substitute,  a  motion  to  postpone  or  commit, 
without  applying  to  the  main  question. 

10.  A  committee  or  State  delegation  unable  to  agree  upon  any  matter 
to  be  reported  to  the  Convention,  shall  be  entitled  to  present  a  minority 
report,  which  must  be  presented  immediately  after  the  presentation  of  the 
majority  report.  The  minority  shall  not  be  required  to  serve  notice  of  its 
intention  upon  the  majority. 

11.  The  Chairman  of  a  committee  shall  have  the  right  to  close  the 
tlebate  upon  the  adoption  of  his  committee's  report,  and  this  right  shall  be 
accorded  him  b}'  the  Chair  even  after  a  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  has  been 
made  or  after  the  previous  question  has  been  ordered. 

12.  A  motion  to  adjourn  shall  not  be  in  order: 

(1)  A\  hile  a  delegate  has  the  floor. 

(2)  A\'hile  a  A'ote  is  being  taken. 

(3)  W  hile  the  previous  question  is  pending. 

(4)  Until  the  previous  question,  after  being  ordered,  is  exhausted. 

(5)  A\  hen  no  business   has   inter\ened   since   a   motion   to  adjourn 

v.as  voted  down. 

13.  Nominating  speeches  shall  be  limited  to  fifteen  minutes  each  and 
seconding  speeches  shall  not  exceed  five  minutes. 

14.  The  roll  of  States  shall  be  called  for  the  presentation  of  candidates, 
and  any  State  delegation  or  portion  thereof  having  a  candidate  to  present 
from  that  State,  shall,  when  the  name  of  the  State  is  called,  be  entitled  to 
present  the  name  of  its  candidate  ;  provided  that  any  State  delegation  may 
select,  to  make  the  presentation  speech,  either  one  of  its  own  members  or 
a  delegate  from  another  State,  in  which  latter  case  the  spokesman  of  the 
delegation  having  the  floor  under  the  call,  shall  announce  to  the  Convention 
the  name  of  the  State  and  the  delegate  selected  to  make  the  presentation 
speech  :  provided  also  that  any  State  may  yield  its  place  on  the  Roll  Call 
to  another  State,  in  which  case  the  Chairman  of  the  delegation  having  the 
floor  under  the  call  shall  announce  the  name  of  the  State  to  which  his 
State  yields. 

15.  Balloting-  on  nominations  shall  be  by  call  of  the  roll  of  States,  the 
Chairman  of  each  delegation  announcing  the  vote  of  his  delegation. 

16.  State  delegations  shall  cast  the  vote  only  for  those  actually  present. 
IT.     All  resolutions,  except  amendments  to  a  committee's  report,  must 

be  submitted  in  writing  and  referred  without  debate. 

18.  These  rules  may  be  suspended  for  a  specific  purpose  by  a  two-thirds 
vote  of  the  Convention. 

19.  Roberts'  Rules  of  Order  shall  govern  upon  points  not  covered  by 
the  foregoing. 

—  13  — 


OFFICIAL  CALL 

Headquarters  Piohibition  National  Committee, 
The  Temple,  Chicago,  111.,  February   i,   1908. 

In  issuing  this  call  for  the  assembling  of  the  National  Prohibition  Con- 
vention for  1908,  we  congratulate  the  people  of  the  United  States  upon  the 
auspicious  outlook  for  the  abolition  of  the  drink  traffic  throughout  the 
nation  by  prohibitory  laws  faithfully  enforced. 

The  year  1907  has  witnessed  the  triumph  of  the  people  of  the  three 
sovereign  states  of  Oklahoma,  Georgia,  and  Alabama  over  the  alcoholic 
liquor  traffic  for  beverage  purposes.  The  movement  for  Prohibition  in  State 
and  Nation  was  never  so  positive  and  irresistible  as  it  is  today.  The  out- 
look for  complete  victory  over  this  moral  and  political  crime  has  never  been 
so  bright  as  the  prospect  which  now  confronts  us  on  the  eve  of  the  great 
Presidential  campaign. 

We  invite  the  Prohibitionists  of  the  several  states  and  territories,  with- 
out regard  to  past  political  affiliations,  and  all  citizens  who  believe  with  us 
that  the  prohibition  of  the  manufacture,  importation,  exportation,  transpor- 
tation, and  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  for  beverage  purposes  is  a  question  of 
transcendent  importance,  and  that  it  should  be  settled  at  the  ballot  box 
at  the  earliest  date,  to  unite  in  the  selection  of  delegates  to  the  National 
Convention  of  the  Prohibition  Party,  which  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in 
Memorial  Hall,  in  the  City  of  Columbus,  State  of  Ohio,  at  10  o'clock  a.  m., 
on  the  15th  day  of  July,  1908,  to  nominate  candidates  for  President  and 
Vice  President,  and  for  the  transaction  of  any  other  business  that  may  come 
before  said  Convention. 

We  express  the  profound  conviction  that  if  every  American  voter  who 
believes  that  the  liquor  traffic  should  be  outlawed  will  contribute  the  force 
and  power  of  his  position  and  influence  on  the  side  of  righteous  government, 
this  campaign  will  sound  the  death-knell  of  this  destructive  traffic. 

The  basis  of  representation  has  been  fixed  by  the  National  Committee 
as  follows : 

First — Each  state  and  territory  is  entitled  to  four  delegates-at-large. 

Second — Each  state  is  entitled  to  an  additional  delegate  for  every  two 
hundred  votes,  or  major  fraction  thereof,  cast  for  Dr.  Silas  C.  Swallow  for 
President  in   1904.  » 

Third — The  District  of  Columbia  is  entitled  to  two  delegates. 

Fourth — Each  state,  territory,  and  the  District  of  Columbia  i«  entitled 
to  as  many  alternates  as  its  number  of  delegates. 

The  time  and  manner  of  electing  these  delegates  and  alternates  will  be 
determined  by  the  Prohibitionists  of  the  various  states  and  territories,  sub- 
ject only  to  this  provision  :  That  in  every  state  where  the  party  has  an  or- 
ganized State  Committee  the  delegates  must  be  chosen  by  such  Congressional 
or  State  Conventions  as  the  State  Cenral  Committee  may  call  for  that  pur- 
pose, or  by  the  State  Committee  in  such  manner  as  it  may  determine. 

Complete  information  concerning  forms  of  credentials,  routes  of  travel, 
lates  of  transportation,  tickets  of  admission,  preliminary  meetings,  etc.,  will 
be  given  through  the  columns  of  the  press  in  ample  time. 

CHARLES   R.    TONES,  Chairman, 
W.  G.  CALDERWOOD,  Secretary. 

—  14  — 


The  apportionment  of  delegates  as  made  by  the  Prohibition  National 
Committee  for  each  state,  based  upon  the  vote  for  Dr.  Silas  C.  Swallow  for 
President    in    1904,  is  as  follows: 


Alaska    4 

Alabama    7 

Arkansas    9 

California    41 

Colorado    21 

Connecticut     ....  12 

Delaware     7 

Florida    4 

Georgia    7 

Guam    4 

Idaho    12 

Illinois     178 

Indiana 121 

Iowa    62 


Kansas    

Kentucky    

Louisiana   

Maine    

Maryland    

Massachusetts    .  . 

Michigan    

Minnesota    

Mississippi    

Missouri    

Montana    

Nebraska    

•Nevada    

New   Hampshire. 


41     New  Jersey 38 

37     New    York     108 

4  North  Carolina..  .      6 

12  North    Dakota    ..    10 

19     Ohio    101 

25     Oklahoma    8 

71     Oregon     23 

35  Pennsylvania  ...173 
4  Philippine    Isl'ds.     4 

40     Porto   Rico    4 

6  Rhode  Island   ...      8 

36  South  Carolina..  4 
4  South  Dakota  .  .  19 
8     Tennessee    13 


Texas    25 

Utah    4 

Vermont   8 

Virginia    11 

W^ashington    ....    20 
West   Virginia   .  .   27 

Wisconsin    53 

Wyoming    5 

Arizona     4 

New  Mexico  ....      4 

Hawaii    4 

Dis.  of  Columbia.     4 


Total     1,519 


PROHIBITION   PARTY'S   VOTE. 


1904 

0 

1900 

1896 

1892      1 

1888      ! 

1884      1 

1880      1 

1876      1 

1872      1 

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Alabama     

612 

2,762 

2,147 

239 

583 

613 





Arizona      

125 

Arkansas     

993 

584 

839 

113 

641 

California     

7,380 

5,024 

2,573 

8,096 

5,761 

2,960 

61 

Colorado      

3,438 

3,790 

1,717 

1,652 

2,191 

761 

Connecticut      .  .  .  . 

1,506 

1,617 

1,808 

4,026 

4,234 

2,305 

409 

378 

205 

Delaware    

607 

538 

355 

564 

400 

64 

Florida    

5 

2,234 

1,778 

561 

423 

72 

Georgia      

685 

1,396 

5,613 

988 

1,808 

168 

Idaho      

1,013 

857 

179 

288 

34,770 

17,626 

9  796 

25,870 
13  050 

21  695 

12,074 
3,028 
1  472 

443 

141 

Indiana    

23,817 

13,718 

3  056 

9,881 
3,550 

6,779 
5,225 

38 

Iowa     

11,061 

9.502 

3,192 

6  343 

592 

36 

Kansas     

7,245 

3  605 

1  921 

4  553 

4,'495 
3,139 

25 

110 

Kentucky      

6.609 

3,780 

4,781 

6,442 

258 

818 

Louisiana    



160 

328 

1.510 

2,585 

1  570 

3,062 

5,877 

2  691 

2,160 

2,827 

93 

Maryland     

3,044 

4,582 

5,918 

4,767 

10 

Massachusetts     .  . 

4,274 

6,202 

2,998 

7,539 

8,701 

9,923 

682 

84 

Michigan     

13,302 

11,859 

5,025 

20,857 

20,942 

17,403 

942 

767 

l,27i 

Minnesota     

6,199 

8,167 

4,343 

14,017 

15,311 

4,684 

286 

144 

Mississippi    

485 

910 

218 

Missouri    

7,181 

5,965 

2,169 

4,298 

4,539 

2,153 

64 

Montana    

327 

298 

186 

549 

Nebraska    

6,326 

3,655 

1,193 

4,902 

9,429 

2,899 

1,599 

Nevada     

'  '749 

V,276 

"779 

89 
1,296 

41 
1,566 

Y,576 

'  'iso 

'266 

New  Hampshire.  . 

New   Jersey 

6,838 

7,183 

5,614 

8,136 

7,904 

6,153 

191 

43 

New   Mexico 



.   •   .    .    . 

New    York 

20,787 

22.043 

16.052 

38,193 

30,231 

24,999 

1,517 

2,329 

201 

North    Carolina  .  . 

361 

1,006 

675 

2,636 

2,789 

454 



North    Dakota  .  .  . 

1,105 

731" 

358 

899 

Ohio    

19  339 

10  ''03 

5  068 

26.012 

24,356 

11,069 

2,616 

1,636 

2,100 

Oklahoma     

1.544 



Oregon     

3  795 

2  536 

919 

2  281 

1  677 

492 

Pennsylvania     .  .  . 

33,717 

27.908 

19,274 

25,123 

20,947 

15,283  1 

1,939 

1,319  1 

1,630  1 

Rhode    Island.  .  .  . 

768 

1,529 

1,160 

1,654 

1,250 

928 

20 

68 

South  Carolina.  .  . 





43 

South  Dakota.  .  .  . 

2.965 

1,542 

685 

Tennessee     

1,889 

3,900 

3.098 

4,856 

5,969 

1,131 

Texas      

4,244 

2  644 

1  786 

2,165 

4,749 

3,534 

Utah      

205 



"Vermont    

792 

368 

733 

1.424 

1,460 

1.752 

"Virginia     

1.382 

2,150 

2,350 

2,798 

1.682 

138 

Washington      .  .  .  . 

3.229 

2.363 

968 

2,553 

"West  Virginia  .  .  . 

4.604 

1.585 

1,203 

2,145 

1,084 

739 

"Wisconsin     

9,770 

10,124 

7,509 

13,132 

14,277 

7,656 

69 

153 

Wyommg    

207 



136 

530 

Totals I  260,114  I  209,936  I  132,009  1269,191  I  249,907  I  150,626  I    10,356  1       9,737  |      5,607  | 


xTncluding  territorial  vote. 

•Returned   as   "scattering."   but   nearly  all,   if   not   all,   were   cast   for  Dow. 


—  15 


Map  Showing  Street  Railway 

Lines  or 
The  CoturiBus  Railway*  Light  Co. 
AND  Points  of  Interest 


HOTEL  AND  STREET  CAR  DIRECTORY 


1 — Olentangy      Park.       High      and      Scliiller 
Street  cars,  North,  marked   "Olentangy    Park." 

2 — Ohio    State   Uuiversity.      High    Street    or 
Neil    Ave.    cars.    North. 

8 — Ohio  Medical   University  and   Protestant 
Hospital.     High   Street  cars.  North. 

10 — Northern    Hotel.      North    Fourth,    High 
Street  or  Neil  Avenue  cars.  North. 

13 — Ohio  Penitentiary.    West  Spring  Street, 
five  minutes  walk   from  High   Street. 

14 — Union      Station, 
marked   "Union   Station. 

15 — Davidson     House, 
marked  "Union  Station. 

16 — Chittenden    Hotel, 
marked    "Union    Station" 
and  Leonard  Avenue  cars. 

18 — United   States   Barracks, 
nue  cars,   East. 

23 — Franklin    Park.      Long    Street    or    State 
and  Oak  Street  cars.  East. 

29 — The  figures  mark  the  spot  of  Memorial 
Hall  where   the   Convention   will   be   held. 


Cars      of      all 
Cars     of     all 


lines 
lines 


Cars     of    all     lines 
and    Spring    Street 


Leonard    Av^ 


30 — Board  of  Trade.  East  Broad  Street, 
Opposite  State  House.     All  cars. 

32-33-34 — Neil  House  and  Capitol.  High. 
Schiller.  Main,  Noil.  State,  Oak,  Livingston 
or   North   Fourth    Street   cars,   pass   these. 

3ri — Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
Building.     Third  Street,  Opposite  State  House. 

3!) — The  American  and  Emerson  Hotels. 
High,  Schiller,  Main,  Oak,  Livingston  or 
Long   Street  cars.    South. 

42 — Great  Southern  Hotel  and  Theatre. 
High.  Schiller.  Main,  Livingston  or  Long 
street   cars.   South. 

44 — Steel  Plant — Steelton..  High  Street 
cars.  South. 

r.I — Toledo  and  Ohio  Central  Ry.  Station. 
Any   Broad   Street  car.  West. 

r7 — Hartman  Hotel.  Corner  Fourtli  and 
Main  Streets.     Take  Main  Street  cars.  East. 

r.J» — Indianola  Park.  Fourth  Street  and 
Summit  Street  cars.  North. 

01 — Carnegie  Library.  Oak  Street  cars. 
East. 


—  16 


INFORMATION  FOR  DELEGATES. 


hoteIj  headquartf:rs  am>  places  for  delegation  caucuses. 


Alabama — Headquarters,  Neil  House;  holds  its  delegation  caucus 
in  Room  — .  Neil  House,  at  2  P.  M.,  July  II. 

Arkansas — Headquarters,  Northern  Hotel ;  holds  its  delegation  caucus 
at  Room  — ,  Northern  Hotel,  at  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

California — Headquarters,  Neil  House;  holds  its  delegation  caucus  in 
the  main  room  of  the  Secretary  of  State's  office  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M., 
July  14. 

Colorado — Holds  its  delegation  caucus  in  the  Statistician's  Room,  vSec- 
retary  of  State's  office,  Capitol,  at  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Connecticut — Headquarters,  the  Vendome  Hotel ;  delegation  caucus  in 
the  Reception  Room  of  the  Governor's  office.  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Delaware — Headquarters.  Southern  Hotel ;  holds  its  delegation  caucus 
in  the  Southern  Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Florida — Headquarters,  Hartman  Hotel;  holds  delegation  caucus  in 
Room  110-111,  Hartman  Hotel,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Georgia — Headquarters,  Virginia  Hotel ;  holds  delegation  caucus  in  the 
Virginia  Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Idaho — Headquarters,  Emerson  Hotel ;  holds  delegation  caucus  in  the 
Emerson  Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Illinois — Headquarters,  Southern  Hotel ;  holds  delegation  caucus  in 
the  Southern  Hotel  hall,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Indiana — Headquarters,  Hartman  Hotel ;  holds  delegation  caucus  in 
Hartman  Hotel  parlor  at  7:30  A.  M.,  July  15. 

Iowa — Headquarters,  Davidson  Hotel ;  holds  delegation  caucus  in  the 
Land  Room,  Auditor's  office  in  the  Capitol,  8:00  A.  M.,  July  15. 

Kansas — Headquarters,  Bryden  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Excise  Room  of 
the  Auditor's  office  in  the  Capitol,  8  A.  M.,  July  15. 

Kentucky — Pleadquarters,  V^irginia  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Mine  Inspec- 
tor's office,  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Louisiana — Headquarters,  Hartman  Hotel;  meets  in  Rooms  110-111, 
Hartman  Hotel,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Maine — Headquarters,  Lincoln  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Lincoln  Hotel 
parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Maryland — Headquarters,  Southern  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  west  hall  of 
the  Southern  Hotel,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Massachusetts — Headquarters,  Bryden  Hotel ;  holds  its  delegation 
meeting  at  2  P.  M.,  July  14,  in  the  Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner's  office, 
in  the  new  Annex  of  the  Capitol. 

Michigan — Headquarters,  Neil  House;  meets  in  the  main  room  of  the 
Governor's  office,  at  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Minnesota — Headquarters,  Jefferson  Hotel;  meets  in  the  State  Treas- 
urer's office  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

—  17  — 


Missouri — Headquarters,  Neil  House ;  meets  in  the  Hearing  Room 
of  the  Railroad  Commissioner's  office,  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Montana — Headquarters,  Northern  Hotel;  meets  in  the  Northern  Ho- 
tel parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Nebraska — Headquarters,  Neil  House;  Meets  in  the  Supreme  Court 
Clerk's  office,  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

New  Hampshire — Headquarters,  Neil  House  ;  meets  in  Room  41,  Neil 
House,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

New  Jersey — Headquarters,  Neil  House  ;  meets  in  the  Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's office,  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

New  York — Headquarters,  Chittenden  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Chittenden 
Hotel  hall,,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

North  Carolina — Headquarters,  the  Vendome  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Vcn- 
dome  Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

North  Dakota — Headquarters,  Virginia  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Virginia 
Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Ohio — At  Home;  meets  in  the  Board  of  Trade  Auditorium  immedi- 
ately after  the  adjournment  of  the  State  Convention. 

Oklahoma — Headquarters,  Imperial  Hotel;  meets  in  the  Imperial  Ho- 
tel parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Oregon — Headquarters,  Davidson  Plotel :  meets  in  the  Davidson  Ho- 
tel parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Pennsylvania — Headquarters,  Southern  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Southern 
Hotel  hall,  4  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Rhode  Island — Headquarters,  Vendome  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Vendome 
Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

South  Dakota — Headquarters,  Neil  House ;  meets  in  Room — ,  Neil 
House,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Tennessee — Headquarters,  Chittenden  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Chittenden 
Hotel  parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Texas — Headquarters,  Virginia  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  Board  of  Health 
office,  in  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Utah — Headquarters,  Southern  Hotel;  meets  in  the  Southern  Hotel 
parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Vermont — Headquarters,  Southern  Hotel ;  meets  in  Room  —  of  the 
Hotel,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Virginia — Headquarters,  Virginia  Hotel;  meets  in  Room  — ,  V^irginia 
Hotel,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Washington — Meets  in  the  Agricultural  Department  office  in  the 
Annex  of  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

West  Virginia — Pleadquarters,  Bryden  Hotel ;  meets  in  the  office  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works  in  the  Capitol,  8  A.  M.,  July  15. 

Wisconsin — Headquarters,  Norwich  Hotel;  meets  in  the  Insurance 
Department  office  in  the  Annex  of  the  Capitol,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Wyoming — Headc]uarters,  Jefferson  Hotel;  meets  in  the  Jefferson  Ho- 
tel parlor,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

Arizona — Headquarters,  Neil  House ;  meets  in  Room  — ,  Neil  House, 
2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

District  of  Columbia — Headquarters,  Neil  House  ;  meets  in  Room  — ^ 
Neil  House,  2  P.  M.,  July  14. 

—  18  — 


STATE  CHAIRMEN. 


Alabama — J.    B.   Albritton,   Slocomb. 

Arizona — J.    Wix    Thomas,    Phoenix. 

Arkansas — G.  H.  Kimble,  Mann  Bldg.,  Little  Rock. 

California — Ellsworth  Leonardson,  -Temple  Block,  Los  Angeles. 

Colorado — O.    A.    Reinhardt,    Mack    Block,    Denver. 

Connecticut — E.  L.  G.  Hohenthal,  South  Manchester. 

Delaware — R.  M.  Cooper,  Cheswold. 

Florida — John  P.  Cofifin,  Eustis. 

Georgia — W.  S.  Witham,  Atlanta. 

Idaho- — Aaron    M.    Bray,    1112    Eastman    St.,    Boise. 

Illinois — Alonzo   E.   Wilson,  92   LaSalle   St.,   Chicago. 

Indiana — F.  W.  Lough,  Union  Trust  Co.  Bldg.,  Indianapolis 

Iowa — J.  B.  Hammond,  Iowa  L.   &  T.    Bldg.,  Des  Moines. 

Kansas — E.  C.  Hadley,  714  Minn  Ave.,  Kansas  City. 

Kentucky — H.  W.  Davis,  367  E.   Market  St.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Louisiana — E.  E.  Israel,   1218  Main  St.,  Baton  Rouge. 

Maine — James  Perrigo,  Portland. 

Maryland — Geo.   R.   Gorsuch,    1715   Guilford   Ave.,   Baltimore.  • 

Massachusetts — Jonathan  S.  Lewis,  Paddock  Bldg.,  l^oston. 

Michigan — Wm.  A.  Taylor,  Battle  Creek. 

Minnesota — Geo.    W.    Higgins,    Minneapolis. 

Missouri — Chas.  E.  Stokes,  1123  E.  12th  St,  Kansas  City. 

Nebraska — J.  S.  Tussey,  Dunbar. 

Nevada — E.  W.  Taylor,  Reno. 

New   Hampshire — A.   H.   Morrill,   Laconia. 

New  Jersey — George  J.  Haven,  Collingswood. 

New  York — Clarence  ■£.  Pitts,  Oswego. 

North   Carolina — Edwin    Shaver,  Salisbury. 

North  Dakota — Theodore  F.  Ostlund,  Hillsboro. 

Ohio — L.  E.  Hawk,  Board  of  Trade  Bldg.,  Columbus. 

Oklahoma — Charles  Brown,  Carmen. 

Oregon— J.  P.  Newell,    368  E.  33rd  St.,  Portland. 

Pennsylvania — David    B.    McCalmont,    Franklin. 

Rhode    Island — Elisha    T.    Read,    Woonsocket. 

South   Carolina — Charles  A.  Smith,  Timminsville. 

South   Dakota — C.  V.  Templeton,  Woonsocket. 

Tennessee — James  A.  Tate,  Harriman. 

Texas — E.  H.  Conibear,  Dallas. 

Vermont — S.  M.  Harris,  Vergennes. 

Virginia — James  W.  Bodley,  Staunton. 

Washington — Guy   Posson,   Walker   Bldg.,   Seattle. 

West  Virginia — Edward  W.  Mills,  Fairmont. 

Wisconsin — W.  D.  Cox,  Gary  Bldg.,  Milwaukee. 

Wyoming — L.  L.  Laughlin,  Laramie. 

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HISTORY. 


THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY  IN   NINE  PRESIDENTIAL 

CAMPAIGNS. 


The  Prohibition  Party  was  born  in  the  darkest  hour  of  the  Civil  War, 
when  on  July  1st,  1862,  the  devil  of  compromise,  through  the  bribe  of  In- 
ternal Revenue,  tempted  Congress  to  officially  recognize,  sanction  and 
legally  bulwark  the  liquor  traffic  in  return  for  a  fixed  annual  tribute  from 
its  blood  money  proceeds;  it  was  christened  at  Chicago,  September  1st, 
1869,  learned  the  discipline  of  defeat,  misrepresentation  and  practical  pol- 
itics in  three  preliminary  national  canvasses  of  18T2.  '76  and  1880;  re- 
ceived its  "call"  to  the  ministry  of  political  righteousness  in  the  electoral 
Pentecost  of  the  1884,  St.  John  campaign ;  and  through  evil  and  good 
report  has  now  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  preached  the  gospel  of  a  clean 
civic  conscience  as  the  only  way  of  national  salvation  from  legalized  wrong, 
organized  vice  and  capitalized  appetite. 

The  keynote  of  the  Convention  at  Chicago  held  in  Farwell  Hall,  Sep- 
tember 1st,  1869,  was  "Come  ye  out  from  among  them  and  be  ye  separate," 
as  the  first  step  towards  an  effective  union  of  all  patriotic  voters  for  the 
overthrow  of  the  liquor  curse.  Five  hundred  delegates,  representing  nine- 
teen states  and  the  District  of  Columb'a,  were  present.  This  Convention 
was  preceded  by  the  formation  of  several  state  Prohibition  Parties: 
Illinois  and  Michigan  in  1867,  and  Ohio  in  1869.  John  Russell  was  the 
Temporary  Chairman  and  James  Black  Permanent  Chairman  of  the  1869 
Convention,  which  adopted  the  name  of  the  National  Prohibition  Party, 
and  appointed  a  National  Committee,  of  which  John  Russell  was  Chairman 
and  Gideon  T.  Stewart  Secretary. 

The  first  Presidential  Convention  of  the  party  was  held  February  22, 
1872,  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  nominated  James  Black  and  John  Russell, 
respectively,  for  President  and  Vice   President. 

James  Black,  the  first  Presidential  candidate  of  the  Prohibtion  Party, 
was  a  scholar,  a  man  of  both  great  executive  and  constructive  ability.  As 
Chairman  of  the  historic  1869  convention,  Presidential  candidate  in  1872, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Prohibition  National  Committee  from  1876  to  1880 ; 
as  or^e  of  the  founders  of  the  National  Temperance  Society  and  Publication 
House;  as  (]rand  Chief  Templar  of  Pennsylvania  Good  Templars,  and  as 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  famous  Ocean  Grove  (N.  J.)  Camp-Meeting 
Association,  he  served  his  cause  and  his  church  to  the  limit  of  his  strength 
and  influence.  His  temperance  library  of  over  1200  works  was  left  to  the 
National  Temperance  Society.  He  was  born  September  16,  1823,  at  Lewis- 
burg,  Pa.,  and  died  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  December  16,  1893. 

John  Russell,  the  beloved  "Father  of  the  Prohibition  Party,"  is  of 
staunch  Puritan  descent,  and  has  given  the  best  years  of  his  life  to  the 
Prohibition  refrom.     He  was  ordained  a  preacher  in  the  Methodist  Church 

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PRESIDENTIAL   CANDIDATES 

—  21  — 


at  the  age  of  21,  served  as  presiding  elder  for  eight  years  and  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Temperance  Committee  of  the  General  Conferenec  of  1880.  His 
distinguished  labors  in  the  Good  Templar  Order,  in  which  he  has  been 
Grand  Chief  Templar  of  his  state  and  for  two  years  was  head  of  the  world 
lodge,  are  only  equalled  by  his  indefatigable  championship  by  voice  and 
pen  of  the  cause,  in  both  private  and  official  position  in  the  Prohibition 
Party  from  its  birth  in  1867-8-9.  It  was  his  paper,  "The  Peninsular 
Herald,"  which  first  successfully  advocated  a  separate  political  party  for 
the  Prohibition  cause.  John  Russell  was  born  in  Livingston  County,  New 
York,  September  20,  1822. 

The  National  Prohibition  Party  ticket  in  1872  received  5,607  votes. 

The  second  National  Convention  was  held  in  1876  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
nominated  Green  Clay  Smith  of  Kentucky,  and  Gideon  T.  Stewart  of  Ohio, 
for  President  and  Vice  President,  changed  the  name  of  the  party  to  the 
National  Prohibition  Reform  Party,  and  in  the  ensuing  election  secured 
9,731  votes. 

General  Green  Clay  Smith,  born  of  patriotic  Revolutionary  stock,  was 
a  hero  of  both  the  Mexican  and  Civil  Wars,  receiving  his  commission  as 
Brigadier  General  for  gallant  service  at  Lebanon,  Tenn.  In  186-t  he  came 
within  half  a  vote  of  being  the  associate  of  Abraham  Lincoln  on  the  Re- 
publican National  ticket.  In  1870  he  entered  the  ministry,  serving  as  pas- 
tor of  the  Metropolitan  Baptist  Church  of  Washington,  D.  C,  until  his 
death,  June  29,  1895.     He  was  born  at  Richmond,  Ky.,  July  2,  1832. 

Gideon  Tabor  Stewart,  the  Prohibition  Boanerges  of  the  Pioneer  de- 
cades of  the  cause  has  probably  served  more  times  as  candidate  on  local, 
state  and  national  tickets  than  any  other  of  the  distinguished  leaders  of 
the  party.  During  a  period  of  less  than  20  years  from  1876,  he  was  nom- 
inated once  for  Vice-President,  three  times  for  Governor,  eight  times  for 
supreme  judge,  several  times  for  common  pleas  and  circuit  judge  and 
representative  in  Congress.  He  was  for  four  years  Chairman  of  the 
National  Committee.  As  editor  of  the  Toledo  Blade  and  other  newspapers 
and  as  an  able  lawyer  in  both  the  state  and  United  States  Courts,  he  has 
made  a  notable  reputation,  while  his  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  has  endowed 
his  oratory  with  brilliant  logic  and  power  and  won  a  host  of  friends  to  the 
cause  he  loves  so  well.    He  was  born  at  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  August  7,  1824. 

In  1880  the  Prohibitionists  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  called  General  Neal 
Dow  of  "Maine  Law"  fame  to  be  its  Presidential  standard  bearer  and 
Henry  Adams  Thompson  to  be  his  associate  on  the  ticket.  The  party 
received  10,366  votes  in  the  1880  election. 

General  Neal  Dow,  the  militant  Quaker  of  the  Prohibition  reform  and 
famous  as  "The  Father  of  the  Maine  Law"  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine. 
March  20,  1804.  Independent  and  aggressive  as  a  young  man,  he  carried 
through  and  realized  his  dream  of  saloon  abolition  in  his  native  state  in 
the  years  from  1846  to  1851,  and  in  that  achievement  struck  the  keynote 
and  set  the  pace  for.  the  whole  Prohibition  movement  of  the  two  genera- 
tions which  have  succeeded  his  first  endeavors.  In  April,  1862,  he  was 
commissioned  Brigadier  General  by  President  Lincoln  for  gallant   service 

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VICE-PRESIDRNTIAL,    CANDIDATES 

—  33  — 


in  the  war.  Born  four  years  before  the  organization  of  Dr.  James  Billy 
Clark's  Temperance  Society,  he  lived  to  see  the  cause  he  loved  spreading 
its  influence  through  the  nation  and  crystalizing  for  its  final  triumph.  In 
June,  1894,  the  completion  of  General  Dow's  90th  year  was  celebrated  by 
memorial  meetings  all  over  the  world. 

Henry  Adams  Thompson  left  the  Republican  praty  and  became  a  Pro- 
hibitionist in  1874  from  which  time  he  identified  himself  by  voice  and  pen 
with  the  Prohibition  party.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  National  Prohibition 
Convention  in  1876,  President  of  the  National  Prohibition  Alliance  in  1877. 
and  held  many  offices  of  responsibility  in  the  work  for  more  than  a  score 
of  3^ears.     He  was  born  in  Centre  County,  Pennsylvania,  March  23,  1837. 

The  first  three  Presidential  canvasses  of  the  Prohibition  party  were 
each  unfortunately  handicapped  by  exceptional  political  conditions.  In 
1872  Horace  Greeley,  known  as  a  staunch  Prohibitionist  in  principle,  was 
the  Democratic  candidate,  and  thus  prevented  a  vote  of  any  proportions 
for  Black  and  Russell.  In  1876  the  extraordinary  rivalry  between  Tilden 
and  Hayes  almost  completely  absorbed  the  attention  of  the  voters.  In  1880 
on  the  very  eve  of  the  election  and  too  late  for  refutation,  the  tools  of  the 
liquor  power  sent  broadcast  over  the  nation,  a  false  dispatch  stating  that 
General  Dow  had  refused  to  stand  as  a  candidate.  There  was  no  foundation 
for  the  statement,  but  it  proved  a  fatal  blow  to  the  Prohibition  hopes  for 
a  large  national  vote  in  that  year. 

In  1881  the  Home  Protection  Party  was  formed  by  a  coterie  of  Prohi- 
bition leaders,  including  Frances  Willard.  Colonel  Bain,  and  John  B.  Finch, 
which  in  1882,  in  a  joint  convention  at  Chicago,  was  merged  with  the  Pro- 
hibition Party  under  the  name  of  the  Prohibition  Home  Protection  Party, 
with  Gideon  T.  Stewart  as  its  National  Chairman. 

The  wonderful  campaign  of  1884  led  by  St.  John  and  Daniel,  followed 
and  the  Prohibition  party  from  November  4.  1884,  entered  upon  an  era 
of  national  influence  and  agitation,  the  striking  details  of  which  are  well- 
known  to  all  Prohibitinoists. 

John  Pierce  St.  John,  the  most  bitterly  fought  and  most  devotedly 
championed  Presidential  candidate  of  the  Prohibition  party,  was  twice 
elected  Governor  of  Kansas  (1878-1880)  on  the  Republican  ticket  and  was 
defeated  for  re-election  to  the  same  office  in  1882,  by  a  liquor  alliance  of 
anti-Prohibition  Republicans,  after  his  independent  espousal  of  the  reform. 
During  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  Governor  St.  John  has  travelled  nearly 
250,000  miles  and  delivered  nearly  5,000  public  addresses.  He  served  in 
the  Civil  War,  being  appointed  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  1  t3rd  Regiment 
Illinois  Volunteers.    He  was  born  in  Brookville,  Indiana.  February  25,  1833. 

William  Daniel,  the  colleague  of  Governor  St.  John  on  the  ticket  of 
1884,  was  a  distinguished  son  of  Maryland,  where  he  scr\-ed  three  terms  in 
the  legislature,  was  a  power  both  in  church  and  politics,  and  in  Glyndon  Park 
Camp-Grounds  founded  in  1889  what  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most 
influential  centers  of  Prohibition  agitation  in  the  South.  He  was  born  on 
Deals  Island,  Md.,  January  24,  1826. 

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PROHIBITION   NATIONAL   CANDIDATES— 1888   TO    1904. 

General  Clinton  Bowen  Fisk,  brevetted  major-general  in  1865,  for  bril- 
liant service  during  the  war,  was  known  throughout  the  nation  for  his 
benevolences  and  activities  in  religious,  educational  and  charitable  interests, 
was  the  founder  of  Fisk  university,  Tennessee,  for  colored  youth;  left  the 
Republican  party  in  1S84  and  for  six  busy  years  up  to  the  hour  of  his  death, 
July  9,  1890,  gave  himself  heart  and  soul  to  the  advancement  of  the  Pro- 
hibition cause  and  party.  He  was  born  at  Griggsville,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  8,  1828. 
John  Anderson  Brooks  was  a  Kentuckian.  born  in  Mason  County  m 
1836;  a  leading  preacher  in  the  Christian  Church  (Disciples)  for  forty  years, 
a  Democrat  until  ISSt,  he  became  a  Prohibitionist  when  the  brewers 
of  Missouri  so  dominated  his  former  party  in  his  native  state,  as  to  make 
it  repudiate  its  pledge  to  submit  the  Prohibition  issue  to  the  people. 

General  John  B^dwell  commanded  the  entire  Fifth  Brigade  of  the  Cal- 
ifornia militia  throughout  the  Civil  War,  was  a  member  (as  a  Republican) 
of  the  thirty-ninth  Congress;  for  years  a  wine-maker  and  the  owner  of 
extensive  vineyards,  he  at  length  became  convinced  that  he  was  in  the 
drunkard-making  business,  dug  up  his  grape-vines,  "gave  his  best  wines  to 
San  Francisco  hospitals,  made  vinegar  of  his  poorest  and  went  out  of  the 
business  forever."  Flis  charities,  many  of  them  continued  by  Mrs.  Bidwell 
since  his  death,  endeared  him  to  all.  General  Bidwell  was  born  in  Chau- 
tauqua County,  New  York,  August  5,  1819. 

Rev.  James  Britton  Cranfill,  D.  D.,  editor,  preacher  and  church  leader, 
was  born  in  Parker  County,  Texas,  in  1859,  and  although  still  a  Democrat 
openly  espoused  the  Prohibition  issue  in  assuming  the  editorial  manage- 
ment of  the  "Weeklv  Advance"  at  Gatesville,  Texas,  in  1882.  When 
the  Democratic  Party  repeatedly  turned  down  the  Prohibition  refer- 
endum demanded  by  the  people.  Dr.  Cranfill  left  it  and  in  1886  organized 
the  Prohibition  party  of  Texas,  of  which  he  has  been  one  of  the  indefati- 
gable leaders  for  more  than  a  score  of  years.  Dr.  Cranfill  has  filled  some 
of  the  highest  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility  in  the  Baptist  Church. 
Joshua  Levering,  originally  an  independent  Democrat,  became  a  Pro- 
hibitionist in  the  St.  John  campaign,  and  has  been  one  of  the  staunchest 
leaders  of  the  party  for  the  past  twenty-four  years.  A  successful  business 
man,  his  intense  interest  in  religious  and  reform  work  reveal  the  splendid 
breadth  and  balance  of  his  character.  For  nearly  four  decades  he  has  been 
prominent  in  the  councils  of  the  Baptist  church,  both  north  and  south. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  International  Committee  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
Hale  Johnson  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War;  a  Republican  until  1884, 
he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Prohibition  Party  at  Pittsburg  in  that  year, 
and  his  self-sacrificing  devotion  to  the  Great  Reform  was  unceasing 
tmtil  his  death.  The  whole  party  was  shocked  at  the  news  of  his 
assassination  Nov.  4,  1902,  by  an  insane  farmer  possessed  with  the  notion 
of  a  fancied  grievance  over  a  recently  tried  lawsuit.  J\Ir.  Johnson's  sturdy 
-fidelity  to  principle  was  immortalized  in  his  famous  declaration  of  political 
independence,  the  epitome  of  which  was  "The  Saloon  and  the  legalized 
Liquor  Traffic  mav  live,  BUT  NOT  BY  MY  VOTE." 

The  life-message  of  John  G.  Woolley  to  the  Church  and  to  the  world 
at  large  are  today  among  the  richest  treasures  of  every  Prohibition  house- 
hold in  the  land. 

The  benediction  of  incarnate  faithfulness  to  truth  and  the  noblest  civic 
ideals,  left  by  Henry  B.  Metcalf  is  still  fresh  in  all  hearts,  while  the  heroic 
figure's  of  Dr.  Swallow  and  the  generous  loyalty  of  George  W.  Carroll,  both 
illumined  in  the  great  campaign  of  1904  are  yet  vital  features  of  current 

history. 

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REV.  SAMUEL  SCOTT, 
First  Prohibition  Candidate  for  Governor  of  Ohio,   1869. 


PROHIBITION  STATE  TICKET,  1869. 

For  Governor, 
SAMUEL    SCOTT. 

For  Lieutenant  Governor, 
JOSHUA  WADSWORTH. 

For  Supreme  Judge, 
GIDEON  T.  STEWART. 

For  Treasurer  of  State, 
THOMAS  EDMONDSON. 

For  Attorney  General, 
JAMES  A.  SUMNER. 

For  Board  of  Public  Works, 
LOVERN  B.   SILVER. 


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PIONEERS  OF  THE  GREAT  REFORM. 


The  first  Prohibition  Party  State  Convention  in  Ohio  was  held  in 
Crestline,  April  24th,  1869.  The  names  of  the  pioneers  present  at  this  con- 
vention, so  far  as  recorded,  are — 

Hugh  L.  Parish,  Jay  Qdell,  L.  B.  Silver,  J.  E.  Fiery,  George  P.  Burrell, 
J.  A.  Spencer,  J.  E.  Ingersoll,  Grove  N.  Abbey,  Dr.  Harris,  Dr.  Booth, 
Dr.  N.  T.  Tyrili,  Sevnor  Williams,  J.  C.  Murdock,  J.  J.  Barnes.  Dr.  C.  H. 
Merrick,  John  Reid,  and  James  Paul. 

This  convention  did  not  nominate  a  ticket  but  issued  a  call  for  another 
State  Convention  to  be  held  at  Mansfield,  O.,  July  14th  of  the  same  year, 
which  met  according  to  the  call  and  nominated  a  state  ticket  headed  by 
J.  E.  Ingersoll  of  Cleveland.  A  few  days  afterward,  Mr.  Ingersoll  declined 
and  Rev.  Samuel  Scott  was  selected  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

The  following  letter  was  received  from  Rev.  Samuel  Scott,  now  in 
his  eighty-ninth  year,  in  answer  to  a  letter  desiring  the  facts  of  the 
convention. 

"Dayton,  Ohio,  July  4th,  1908. 

'"The  Prohibition  State  Convention,  held  at  Mansfield  in  1869,  nomi- 
nated a  full  State  Prohibition  ticket  for  the  state  election  and  also  appointed 
delegates  to  the  National  Convention,  called  by  the  promoters  of  the  move- 
ment in  this  and  other  states,  to  effect  a  national  party  organization,  which 
convention  met  on  the  first  day  of  September,  1869,  at  Farwell  Hall  in 
the  City  of  Chicago,  111.,  where  the  National  Prohibition  Party  was  duly 
organized. 

"In  a  few  weeks  after  this  convention,  the  pioneers  of  the  Prohibition 
party  of  Ohio  cast  their  ballots  at  the  state  election  for  the  first  Prohibi- 
tion party  ticket  ever  voted  in  any  state  election.  This  was  the  only  one 
of  the  states  represented  in  the  national  convention  which  voted  the  ticket 
of  the  new  party  that  year.  It  was  officially  counted  in  the  state  canvass 
and  the  vote  reported  as  6T9  only,  many  of  the  ballots  being  entirely  sup- 
pressed by  the  willing  tools  of  the  liquor  traffic  in  charge  of  the  polls. 
But  if  counted  small  in  numbers,  it  was  large  in  another  sense,  for  it  was 
as  the  charge  of  the  Light  Brigade  of  the  Six  Hundred  at  Balaklava ;  and 
the  names  of  those  fallen  heroes  will  live  long  in  history  and  song.  It  is 
said  that  their  survivors  were  found  in  their  proper  places  on  the  battle- 
field after  the  perilous  charge,  ready  for  the  next  call  to  the  conflict  with  the 
foe.  So  with  our  own  heroic  band,  while  the  white  monuments  sadly 
cover  so  many  of  our  tried  and  proven  patriots  who  were  in  that  glorious 
Ohio  charge  of  18G9,  some  of  that  band  have  survived  these  thirty-nine 
years  of  heroic  endeavor,  and  are  now  ready  and  waiting  for  the  next 
command  to  advance,  fearless  and  firm,  now  as  then,  whether  they  charge 
against  few  or  against  manv." 


—  28  — 


THE   "UPPER  KOO>l." 

The  Prohibiton  Party  of  Ohio  was  born  in  the  "Upper  Room,"  of  the 
building  shown  in  the  above  cut,  at  CrestHne,  Ohio,  April  24.  1869.  The 
entrance  to  the  room  is  shown  at  the  head  of  the  stairway.  The  building  is 
still  standing,  and  is  of  historic  interest  to  every  Prohibitionist  in  the  Nation. 


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PROHIBITION  NATIONAL  CONVENTIONS. 

Year.       Convention,  Where  and  When.  Candidates. 

1869         Chicago,    September    1.  ...  Prohibition   Party  organized. 
1872         Columbus,    Feb.    22 President,  James   Black,   Pennsylvania 

Vice   President,  John   Russell,  Michigan. 
1876         Cleveland,    May    17 President,  Green   Clay  Smith,  Kentucky. 

Vice   President,  Gideon  T.   Stewart,   Ohio. 
1880         Cleveland,   June    17 President,   Neal   Dow,   Maine. 

Vice    President,    H.    A.    Thompson,    Ohio. 
1884         Pittsburg,    July    23 President,  John    P.    St.   John,   Kansas 

Vice    President,   Wm.    Daniel,   Maryland. 
1888         Indianapolis,    May   30 President,    Gen.   Clinton    B.    Fisk,    New   Jersey. 

Vice  President^  Rev.  Dr.  John  A.  Brooks,  Missouri. 
1892         Cincinnati,  June   29 President,    Gen.   John    Bidwell,    California. 

Vice    President,  James   B.    Cranfill,  Texas. 
1896         Pittsburg,    May    27 President,   Joshua   Levering,   Maryland. 

Vice    President,   Hale   Johnson,   Illinois. 
1900         Chicago,   June   27 President,   John    G.   Woolley,    Illinois. 

Vice    President,   Henry   B.   Metcalf,  Rhode   Island. 
1904         Indianapolis,    June    30 President,   Silas   C.    Swallow,  Pennsylvania 

Vice    President,    George   W.    Carroll,   Texas. 


THE  ELECTORAL  VOTE. 

The  electoral  vote  of  the  several  states  equals  the  number  of  senators  and 
representatives  in  Congress  to  which  the  various  states  are  entitled.  A  new^ 
apportionment  each  ten  years,  based  vtpon  the  census,  brings  changes  in  the 
electoral  vote.  The  following  table  shows  the  present  electoral  vote  of  the 
states,  based  upon  the  apportionment  of  representatives  made  by  Congress 
under  the  census  of  1900,  and  also  that  of  the  previous  decade,  under  which 
the  election  of  1900  was  held : 


STATE 


ELECTORAL    VOTE 
1908     1904      1900 


STATE 


Alabama     11 

Arkansas     9 

California    10 

Colorado     5 

Connecticut     7 

Delaware    3 

Florida     5 

Georgia     13 

Idaho    3 

Illinois    27 

Indiana    15 

Iowa    13 

Kansas     10 

Kentucky     13 

Louisiana     9 

Maine    6 

Maryland     8 

Massachusetts     16 

Michigan     14 

Minnesota     11 

Mississippi     10 

Missouri     18 

Montana    3 


11 

11 

9 

8 

10 

9 

■5 

4 

7 

6 

3 

3 

5 

4 

13 

13 

3 

3 

27 

24 

15 

15 

13 

13 

10 

10 

13 

13 

9 

8 

6 

6 

8 

8 

16 

15 

14 

14 

11 

9 

10 

9 

18 

17 

3 

3 

Nebraska    

Nevada    3 

New    Hampshire 4 

New    Jersey 12 

New    York 39 

North    Carolina 12 

North    Dakota 4 

Ohio    23 

Oklahoma    7 

Oregon     4 

Pennsylvania    34 

Rhode    Island 4 

South    Dakota 4 

South    Carolina 9 

Tennessee     12 

Texas     18 

Utah     3 

Vermont     4 

Virginia     12 

Wasliin.gton     5 

West    Virginia 7 

Wisconsin     13 

Wyoming    3 

Total 483 

Necessary    for    choice...  242 


ELECTORAL    VOTE 
1908      1904      1900 
8  8  8 


3 

3 

4 

4 

12 

10 

39 

36 

12 

11 

4 

3 

23 

23 

4 

4 

34 

32 

4 

4 

4 

4 

9 

9 

12 

12 

IS 

15 

3 

3 

4 

4 

12 

12 

.5 

4 

7 

6 

13 

12 

3 

3 

47G 

447 

239 

224 

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POLEMICS  OF  THE  GREAT  REFORM. 


PROHIBITION  THE  GREATEST  ECONOMIC  ISSUE. 

The  liquor  question  is  the  only  live  financial  problem  before  the  people 
today.  According  to  the  American  Grocer  this  country  pays  out  annually 
one  and  one-quarter  billion  dollars  for  drink,  and  the  indirect  cost — poverty, 
crime,  loss — is  equal  to  three  quarters  of  a  billion  dollars  more.  That  is  five 
times  as  much  as  it  pays  for  education,  thirteen  times  as  much  as  it  pays  for 
its  religion  and  churches,  and  one  hundred  and  seven  times  as  much  as  it 
pays  for  all  home  and  foreign  missions.  It  is  about  four  times  as  big  as 
the  Steel  Trust,  eight  times  as  big  as  the  tariff,  and  compared  with  the  free 
silver  question  in  American  politics  today,  it  is  "sixteen  to  one."  That  is 
the  great  and  only  financal  question  that  is  likely  to  absorb  the  thought  of 
this  country  for  years  to  come.  This  is  a  financial  basis,  big  and  broad 
enough  to  found  a  political  party  upon. 

PROHIBITION   THE  SUPREME   MORAL  ISSUE. 

The  moral  phase  of  the  Prohibition  question  is  vastly  more  important 
than  its  economic  phase.  The  liquor  traffic  is  the  direct  cause  ot  most  of  the 
drunkenness,  vice,  pauperism,  crime,  Sabbath  desecration,  gambling,  prosti- 
tution, graft,  civic  corruption,  municipal  wickedness  and  official  crime.  It 
is  responsible  for  5,000  suicides,  10,000  murders,  60,000  young  women  be- 
ginnng  a  life  of  shame,  half  a  million  young  men  starting  on  a  life  of  drunken- 
ness, and  100,000  drink-murdered  men  every  year.  That  is  the  moral  basis 
of  this  reform,  and  it  is  big  enough  to  furnish  a  platform  for  a  national 
political  party.  Thus  both  financially  and  morally  the  Prohibition  party 
stands  for  the  only  great  question  and  the  only  truly  national  question  before 
the  people  today.  If  any  more  proof  is  needed  to  show  that  ours  are  the 
only  truly  national  issues,  let  it  be  remembered  that  this  party  has  stood  for 
this  doctrine  for  thirty-nine  years  against  all  opposition  and  has  never  faltered. 
During  these  thirty-nine  years  we  have  seen  'green-backism,'  'tariff,'  'free 
silver,'  'farmers'  alliances,'  'expansion,'  'anti-trust,'  'railroad  rate  legislation,' 
and  a  dozen  other  questions  stalk  for  an  hour  across  the  political  stage  and 
vanish,  while  our  cause  has  not  shifted  one  hair's  breadth,  nor  varied  its 
doctrines  nor  its  appeals  to  the  conscience  and  intelligence  of  American  man- 
hood. 

THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY  THE  ONLY  NATIONAL  PARTY. 

The  Prohibition  party  is  today  the  only  national  party.  The  Republican 
party  is  the  party  of  the  solid  North,  the  Democratic  party  is  the  party  of 
the  solid  South.  Both  of  these  parties  are  truly  sectional,  founded  upon  and 
fostering  a  sectional  feeling;  neither  of  them  is,  or  ever  can  be,  truly  national. 
They  antagonize  each  other,  not  over  present  vital  issues,  but  over  sectional 
traditions   and   sanguinary   memories  that   must  forever  keep   them  asunder 

—  31  — 


and  belligerent.  On  the  other  hand,  the  Prohibition  party  comes  fettered 
with  no  such  traditions  and  embittered  with  no  such  memories.  It  is  in  no 
sense  sectional,  but  in  all  respects  national.  It  presents  the  same  principles 
to  both  South  and  North,  and  appeals  to  the  same  motives  and  interests 
everywhere.  It  has  presented  nine  presidential  tickets  to  the  American  peo- 
ple, and  of  its  candidates  two  of  its  nominees  were  southerners — Green  Clay 
Smith  (1876)  was  from  Kentucky,  and  Joshua  Levering  (1896)  was  from 
Maryland;  and  it  has  nominated  four  candidates  for  vice-president  from 
the  South.  William  Daniel  (1884)  was  from  Maryland,  John  A.  Brooks 
(1888)  was  from  Missouri,  J.  B.  Cranfill  (1892)  was  from  Texas,  and  George 
W.  Carroll  (1904)  was  from  Texas.  The  Republican  party  never  nominated 
a  candidate  for  president  from  the  South,  and  never  but  one  candidate  for 
vice-president — Andrew  Johnson.  (1864)  whom  it  tried  to  impeach.  The 
Democratic  party  has  never  nominated  a  Southern  man  for  President  since 
James  K.  Polk  of  Tennessee  in  1844 — sixty-four  years  ago;  and  it  has  during 
the  last  nine  elections  presented  the  names  of  only  one  for  vice-president — 
Brown  of  Missouri  (1872).  Thus,  during  the  last  nine  presidential  elections 
the  Republicans  have  nominated  no  Southern  man.  the  Democrats,  though 
strong  in  the  South,  have  nominated  no  Southern  man  for  President,  and 
only  one  for  vice-president,  while  the  Prohibitionists,  having  small  partisan 
following  in  the  South,  have  nominated  six.  This  is  our  attitude  as  a  truly 
national  party  and  our  evidence  of  good  faith  toward  the  South. 

THE    PROHIBITION    PARTY    ALONE    REPRESENTS    TRULY 
NATIONAL  ISSUES. 

The  Prohibition  party  is  the  only  one  that  represents  truly  national 
issues.  The  issues  so  far  as  there  are  any,  which  divide  the  Republican  and 
Democratic  parties,  are  issues  that  are  chiefly  local  or  sectional,  or  they  are 
contentions  over  personal  favors  or  official  patronage.  The  truly  great  and 
national  questions,  interstate  commerce,  anti-trust  legislation  and  the  Panama 
Canal,  are  questions  about  which  there  is  substantial  agreement  among  all 
parties  and  all  classes,  and  there  is  today  no  question  before  the  American 
people  upon  which  these  two  great  parties  have  divided  upon  clean-cut  issues. 
They_  could  interchange  their  platforms  and  speeches  half  of  the  time  and 
no  one  would  ever  discover  the  difference. 

Not  so  with  the  Prohibition  party.  It  offers  the  American  people  ques- 
tions that  can  never  be  anything  but  national. 

WHAT  THE   PROHIBITION   PARTY  HAS   DONE. 

In  the  very  midst  of  the  Civil  War  in  1862,  the  National  Government 
gave  official  recognition  to  the  liquor  business  and  laid  the  cornerstone  of 
the  latter's  future  prosperity  by  the  inauguration  of  the  Internal  Revenue 
sysem  as  specifically  applied  to  the  drink  traffic. 

It  was  at  this  crisis  that  on  September  i,  1869,  five  hundred  delegates 
representing  twenty  states  and  territories,  gathered  in  Farwell  Hall,  Chicago,. 

—  32  — 


and  or'T-anized  the  movement  known  from  that  day  to  this  as  the  National 
Prohibition  Party.  Despite  all  political  prophesies  it  has  steadily  advanced 
in  influence,  numbers  and  achievements,  and  is  today  in  the  most  tlourishing- 
condition  of  its  entire  career. 

For  twenty-five  vears  the  leaders  of  the  temperance  reform,  with  very 
few  exceptions,  both  men  and  women,  have  been  open  and  pronounced  Party 
Prohibitionists. 

During-  all  this  time  the  party  Prohibitionists  have  held  more  public 
rallies  to  further  the  cause  than  all  other  agencies  combined. 

The  Party  Prohibitionists  through  their  publications  have  furnished  at 
least  nine-tenths  of  all  the  fundamental  data,  statistics,  argument  and  educa- 
tional information  on  the  liquor  problem,  and  at  great  expense  have  sent 
their  investigators  round  the  world  to  every  leading  country  of  the  earth 
to  get  the  actual  facts  at  first  hand  for  every  worker  in  the  reform. 

Party  Prohibitionists,  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  say,  contribute  more  than 
three-fourths  of  all  funds  annually  raised  for  the  furtherance  of  the  battle 
against   drink. 

Church  committees  and  temperance  societies,  woman's  unions  and  young- 
people's  movements  with  all  their  inspiring  work  are  the  spontaneous  re- 
inforcements and  auxiliaries  which  the  progress  of  the  reform  has  brought 
into  being,  largely  as  the  result  of  the  organized  faith  and  truth  incarnated 
and  disseminated  by  the  Prohibition   Party   movement. 

Besides  being  the  indefatigable  investigator  and  persistent  pioneer  of 
tlie  reform  the  Prohibtion  party  and  the  Prohibition  press  have  patiently 
han.imered  away  at  public  sentiment  until  every  one  of  the  liquor  tratfic's 
basic  factors  of  fraud  and  sham  have  become  common  knowledge,  with  the 
business  discredited  socially  and  politically  and  ready  for  de-legalization  and 
extermination. 

The  Prohibitionist  has  shown  that  the  ramifications  of  the  liquor  traffic 
v/hich  by  instinctive  coalition  with  the  gambler,  the  white-slave  dealer,  the 
blackmailer  and  the  whiskey-oiled  old  i)arty  n-iachine  has  begotten  a  gigantic 
Vice  Trust  with  headquarters  in  every  great  city — that  these  ramifications 
extend  into  every  stratum  of  society  and  have  aft'ccted  with  the  subtle  virus 
of  indifiference  every  vein  and  artery  of  the  body  politic: 

That  were  it  to  continue  undisturbed,  it  would  in  time  paralyze  every 
social   energy  and  stifle  the  conscience  of  the  people: 

That  its  nationally  developed  system  of  official  sanction  and  license  for 
an  annual  cash  bribe  to  the  state  itself  has  been  the  parent  of  a  thousand 
forms  of  special  privilege  granted  every  powerful  corporation  the  land  over: 
That  the  underlying  principle  which  assumes  that  a  license  can  ever 
legitimize  or  endow  with  respectability  a  trafiic  whose  existence  under  all 
conditions  breeds  slums,  crime,  misery,  disease  and  degeneration  as  surely 
as  swamps  breed  malaria,  is  both  vicious  and  fallacious: 

That  the  theory  that  an  organized  vice  can  be  taxed  or  ■"regulated"  to 
death  is  untenable : 

That  the  absurd  political  economy  which  proposes  to  advance  education, 
protect  the  state  and  conserve  the  highest   interests  of  society,   by   the  im- 


position  of  a  permissive  tax  upon  a  business  that  thrives  at  the  expense  of 
and  in  the  exact  ratio  that  it  debauches  man  and  extends  the  tyranny  of  lust 
and  appetite,  is  the  monumental  fraud  of  modern  statesmanship: 

That  the  Internal  Revenue  System  of  the  Federal  Government  as  applied 
to  the  liquor  traffic  is  a  relic  of  econom^lc  barbarism  and  one  of  the  supreme 
defensive  bulwarks  of  that  traffic,  and  that  its  abolition  would  stj^ike  the 
death-blow  to  its  pretensions  and  its  grip  upon  our  politics: 

And  finally  he  has  conclusively  proved  that  state  and  even  national 
Prohibition  are  both  feasible  and  possible,  and  will  inevitably  come  in  the 
process  of  our  political  evolution,  but  that  its  permanence  and  success  will 
evermore  depend  upon  popular  vigilance  in  the  election  of  officials  pledged 
to  fearlessly  execute  the  law,  and  who  are  backed  by  a  political  party  whose 
leaders  and  rank  and  file  are  not  controlled  by,  nor  at  the  mercy  of,  the  liquor 
"trade,"  but  sincerely  and  heartily  united  on  the  Prohibition  policy  as  a 
dominant  issue  until  it  shall  be  victoriously  established. 

All  signs  point  to  a  new  era  wherein  the  victories  of  which  the  allied 
liquor  interests  robbed  the  people  in  the  eighties  will  at  length  be  perman- 
ently achieved. 

THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY  AND  THE  SOUTH. 

The  Prohibition  party  needs  the  help  of  the  South.  The  saloon  or- 
ganized for  business  and  went  into  American  politics  forty-three  years  ago, 
and  it  has  been  a  dominating  factor  in  our  state  and  national  politics  to 
this  hour.  It  is  entrenched  in  every  department  of  our  government.  It 
fetters  Congress,  gags  the  President,  and  bribes  the  nation's  conscience 
with  its  $200,000,000  annual  internal  revenue,  and  its  $100,000,000  license 
fees.  The  Prohibition  party  can  never  hope,  to  break  these  chains  of  political 
bondage  alone,  for  the  problem  is  national  and  we  must  have  the  co-operation 
of  the  Prohibitionists  of  the  entire  nation — South  and  North — to  free  the 
nation  from  this  criminal  complicity  with  the  drink  traffic.  We  appeal  to 
the  South  because  we  want  the  help  of  the  South  as  well  as  the  Nort'h 
to  set  the   nation   free. 

\  THE  SOUTH  AND  THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY. 

Finally,  the  South  needs  the  help  which  the  Prohibition  party  alone 
can  give.  Since  the  Civil  War,  the  South  has  had  no  president  or  vice- 
president  nor  any  considerable  influence  in  the  national  government,  and 
as  things  have  been  going  on  for  the  last  thirty  years,  never  will  have. 
As  long  as  the  solid  Democratic  South  confronts  a  solid  Republican  North, 
there  will  be  no  change  in  the  national  situation  nor  any  hope  of  change. 
We  Prohibitionists  believe  that  it  is  neither  fair  nor  just,  thus  to  practically 
deprive  the  great  South  of  its  just  share  of  national  honors  and  patronage. 
We,  therefore,  propose  frankly  and  freely  the  only  remedy  that  can  ever 
change  this  unhappy  state  of  affairs.  There  are  millions  of  Prohibitionists 
in  the  Republican  party  of  the  North,  and  millions  of  Prohibitionists  hi 
the   Democratic  party  of  the   South,  people  of  similar   race,   religion,  tastes 

—  34  -- 


and  identical  in  their  belief  in  the  doctrines  of  Prohibiton.  If  these  millions 
will  now  band  themselves  together  under  the  Prohibition  banner,  they  will 
quickly  form  the  dominant  political  party  of  this  country  which  will  be 
truly  national,  unfettered  by  sectional  traditions,  unpoisoned  by  sectional 
hate.  The  time  is  ripe  for  such  a  movement.  Brethern  of  the  South,  we 
give  you  our  hearts  and  our  hands  for  this  work.     Will  you  join  with  us? 

THE  NECESSITY  EOR  A  PROHIBITION    PARTY. 

We  are  met  with  the  hue  and  cry  that  this  mighty  Prohibition  revo- 
lution is  not  the  outgrowth  of  political  prohibition,  but  that  it  is  bei'ng 
achieved  on  non-partisan  lines,  and  that  therefore  there  is  no  necessity  for 
party  organization   and  action   in   behalf  of  this  issue. 

The  Prohibition  party  believes  that  if  a  man  has  a  conviction  that 
Prohibtion  and  not  license  is  the  right  method  for  dealing  with  the  saloon 
problem,  that  he  should  apply  that  conviction  not  only  in  voting  for  the 
adoption  of  a  prohibition  law,  but  also  in  voting  for  public  officers  who  are 
in  favor  of  that  law,  and  who  will  want  to  enforce  it. 

We  cannot  consent  to  a  political  course  that  favors  prohibition  laws, 
and  then  votes  for  candidates  and  parties  who  are  opposed  to  them  and 
declare   for  'personal   liberty.' 

Why  should  not  we  carry  our  anti-saloon  convictions  with  us  when  we 
elect  our  army  of  public  officers?  Why  decry  the  use  of  political  organiza- 
tion to  this  end?  We  recognize  its  use  on  all  other  questions  national  in 
scope.  We  want  men  in  office  who  are  favorable  to  public  measures  of 
much  less  importance.  Why  not  organize  to  elect  Prohibitionists  to  enforce 
prohibition  laws?  Such  a  course  will  end  the  cry  that  Prohibition  does 
not  prohibit. 

THE     ROLL     OF     OFFICES.     LOCAL,     STATE     AND     NATIONAL. 
WHICH    "HAVE  TO   DO   WITH"   THE   LIQUOR   TRAFFIC. 

Let  us  call  the  roll  in  part  of  the  army  of  office  holders  in  this  country 
whose  public  duties  touch  vitally  the  question  of  Prohibition.  There  is  the 
whole  judiciary  system  from  the  Justice  of  the  peace  to  the  United  States 
Supreme  court ;  there  is  *.he  executive  departments  of  the  States,  from  the 
town  constable  to  the  Cove.^nor ;  we  must  include  all  our  machinery  for 
selecting  jurors,  gatherinjr  e^'idence,  and  having  it  properly  presented  in 
court,  and  this  involves  states  at.torneys,  city  counc"ls  and  attorney  generals. 
It  likewise  includes  the  whoV  ai'^my  of  executive  officers  in  the  Federal 
service.  We  will  need  U.  S.  Marshals,  District  attorneys,  and  attorney 
generals.  We  will  need  to  control  the  intricate  machinery  of  interstate 
commerce,  of  importation  and  transportaLion,  and  of  manufacture  of  intox- 
icating liquors  with  all  the  army  of  office  h'^Mers  involved.  We  will  need 
a  secretary  of  war  and  secretary  of  the  navy  whose  hearts  are  not  set  on 
the  restoration  of  the  canteen.  We  will  need  a  Post  Office  department  set 
as  firmly  against  the  use  of  the  mails  for  this  traffic  as  it  is  now  set  against 
the  lottery  and  the  consummation  of  frauds  and  swir. dlers.     We  will   need 

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a  Secretary  of  the  State  who  will  not  disgrace  this  nation  by  lending  the 
consular  service  to  drummers  for  this  traffic  among  the  half  civilized  nations 
of  the  earth,  and  who  will  not  permiit  rum  to  follow  and  undo  the  work  of 
our  great  army  of  missionaries  in  the  remotest  corners  of  the  earth.  We 
will  need  a  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  who  knows  how  to  support  this  govern- 
ment without  'blood   money.' 

Above  all  we  will  need  in  the  White  House  a  man  who  will  ncAcr  lift 
before  the  gaze  of  the  admiring  young  manhood  of  this  nation  the  wine 
v>-hen  it  glows  in  the  cup.  We  will  need  there  a  man  of  will  power  equal 
to  Lincoln,  and  one  with  a  heart  for  humanity  equal  to  a  Frances  Willard. 

It  is  of  course  conceded  we  will  need  men  in  legislative  capacities,  from 
the  \illage  board,  the  city  council,  count}'  boards  and  legislatures  up  to 
and  including  both  branches  of  Congress. 

Keep  such  a  cpiestion  as  this — one  needing  such  an  army  of  office  holders 
as  this — out  of  pol  tics? 

It  is  the  ijaide.'-.t  absurdity  e\-er  proposed  in  statesmanship.  It  simplx- 
cannot  and  might  not  to  be  done,  and  the  sooner  the  American  people 
recognize  this  fact,  and  get  down  to  the  practical  work  of  organizing  for 
]:)oLitical  \ictor}    the  better  it  will  be  for  this  cause. 

THE  BREADTH  OF  THE  PROHIBITION  ISSUE. 

The  Prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic  is  the  greatest  issue  our  land  has 
e\cr  known.  Roundly  speaking,  there  are  in  the  L'nited  States  Two  llun- 
drefl  and  Fiftv  Thousand  saloons.  When  we  add  to  these  the  breweries, 
distilleries,  and  wholesale  liquor  houses,  we  ha\-e  greater  vested  interests 
than  the  Southern  slave-holders  held  before  the  war.  There  are.  perhaps, 
directlv  and  indirectly  connected  with  the  liquor  traffic,  more  than  two  mil- 
lions of  men,  and  the  annual  expenditure  for  intoxicating  drinks  by  the  people 
of  the  United  States  reaches  more  than  one  billion  two  millions  of  dollars. 

Great  as  it  is,  the  financial  equation  of  the  problem  is  but  a  trifle  when 
compared  with  the  other  questions  involved.  The  sale  of  liquor  causes 
seventy-five  per  cent,  of  all  the  crime  known  an  our  country  ;  it  is  the  one 
constant  and  prolific  source  of  pauperism,  profligac_v  and  insanity  ;  it  destroys 
the  very  bone  and  sinew  of  our  laboring  classes'  j^is  the  source  of  the  cor- 
ruption of  elections;  it  seeks  to  control,  and  di^gj.  control,  legislatures,  con- 
gressmen, judges.  United  States  senators,  anr\  i-^iny  newspapers;  its  tentacles 
are  fastened  upon  every  factor  in  our  public;,  ar-i  social  life,  and  it  has  reached 
out  far  enough  to  gather  into  its  slimy  fr^^jfjc  some  who  minister  at  the  sacred 
desk.  When  we  consider  the  questior,  ij-  its  powerful  and  far  reaching  in- 
fluence, it  is  by  far  the  greatest  is:-ue  >^ver  known  in  any  laiul. 
^,^-''There  are  those  who  claim  that  the  Prohibition  party  is  a  party  of  one 
iflea,  and  they  allege  that  for  that  reason  they  cannot  become  Prohibitionists. 
If  this  were  true  and  the  Prohibition  party  had  but  one  idea,  it  would  cer-' 
tainly  be  one  idea  ahead,  because  the  two  old  parties  have  no  idea  and  no 
issue.      They   are   abs-^luely   at    sea.   and    the   noise   they   are    making  is   on 

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accovint  of  the  fact  that  they  want  to  obscure  the  Prohibition  issue  and  thus 
continue  the  deception  of  the  American  people  and  themsehes  in  office. 

Every  man,  woman  and  child  in  America  is  afifected  by  the  liquor  traffic. 
Every  life  is  menaced  by  the  saloon.  Every  artery  of  commerce  feels  the 
deadly  effect  of  this  blood  poison  of  our  national  life.  Such  an  issue  as  this 
must  of  necessity  be,  and  by  the  very  nature  of  the  case  is.  the  greatest  issue 
known  to  American  statemanship. 

HOW  THE  LIQUOR  TRAFFIC  IS  IN  POLITICS. 

The  liquor  fight  is  in  politics  and  has  been  there  for  half  a  century. 

The  only  way  to  get  it  out  is  to  fight  it  to  death  in  that  citadel. 

The  liquor  traffic  has  no  politics,  and  no  patriotism  but  its  own  business. 

It  has  for  years  dictated  with  few  exceptions,  all  nominations  for  pC)l- 
itical   office   at   every   local,  state   and   national   election. 

Its  political  strategy  and  power  is  its  citadel  of  strength. 

To  break  it  of  its  power  we  must  compete  with  it  in  the  election  of 
puljlic  officers. 

To  do  that  all  men  who  are  opposed  to  it  must  ultimately  stand  together 
in  one  political  organization,  call  it  what  you  please. 

It  will  be  a  political  party  no  matter  what  you  call  it. 

We  believe  the  time  has  come  for  such  a  great  moral  rc\olution.  The 
nation  needs  now  as  it  has  never  needed  a  moral  issue  infused  into  its 
political  life,  llie  times  are  ripe  for  such  -a  political  realignment  as  will 
place  all  of  the  friends  of  the  home,  and  of  humanity  from  the  north  and 
south. -the  east  and  west,  side  by  side  against  the  common  foe  of  all.  Such 
is  the  great  mission  of  the  Prohibition  party.  We  have  carried  for  forty 
years  and  never  lowered  the  banner  for  local,  state  and  national  prohibition, 
and  so  help  us  God  we  will  never  haul  down  that  banner  until  -the  nation 
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THE  NATIONAL  REPUBLICAN  AND  DEMOCRATIC  PARTIES  ON 
THE  PROHIBITION  ISSUE. 


The   National    Democratic   party   in    1884  directly   antagonized   the   Pro- 
hibition reform  ai^^catered  to  the  liquor  traffic  of  the  nation  with  the  plat- 
\       form  declaratioyu^  "We  oppose  suni|>.tuary  laws  which  vex  the  citizen  and 
..----^interfere   with   individual   liberty."   'j'his   pronouncement   on   the   Prohibition 
issue  has  been   the  unvaried   attitude  of  the   National   Democratic  party   for 
more  than  thirty  years. 1 


The  Republican  party  in  ffs  Presidential  Convention  of  1872  pledged  its 
national  support  to  the  brewers  against  Prohibition  and  Sabbath  observance, 
in   the   famous    i6thvplank  of   itS-4>Iatft5rm   known   as  the   Raster  resolution. 

This  stand  was  openly  endorsed  by  the  liquor  forces  of  the  nation  and 
every  National  Republican  platform  from  1872  to  1908  has  impliedly  re- 
affirmed  this   plank. 

In  1888  the  Republican  party  specifically  reiterated  the  substance  of  the 
Raster  plank. 

'•The    1908  Republican  -N^ajional   Convention   which   nominated   Mr.   Taft 


for  President  at  Chicago,  June  ii5tli  last,  refused  to  favor  or  champion  any 
phase  of  the  Prohibition  issue,  althoWh  earnestly  urged  to  do  so  by  letters 
and  telegrams  from  many  prominentX  temperance  Republicans  and  others 
throughout  the  country,  but  on  the  contrary  re-endorsed  its  previous  anti- 
Prohibition   attitude    in    these    words : 

''Upon  this  plaiiform.of  principles  and  purposes,  reaffirming  our  adherence 
to  every  Republican  doctrine  proclaimed  since  the  birth  of__thje^4ia-rly,  we 
go  before  the  country  asking  the  support  not  only  of  those  who  have  acted 
with  us  heretofore  but  of  all  our  fellow  citizens  who,  regardless  of  past 
political  differences,  unite  in  the  desire  to  maintain  the  policies,  perpetuate 
the  blessings  and  make  secure  the  achievements  of  a  greater  America." 

Whether  or  not  this  plank  referred  directly,  among  other  pronounce- 
ments, to  the  Raster  brewers'  plank  of  1872,  is  definitely  shown  in  the  fol- 
lowing correspondence  since  the  Republican  National  Convention  at  Chicago, 
between  Robert  H.  Patton  and  Attorney-General  Wade  H.  Ellis,  of  Ohio, 
who,  according  to  the  press  reports,  was  the  special  representative  of  Taft 
on  the  Resolutions  Committee,  and  wrote  the  rough  draft  of  the  national 
platform,  which  received,  prior  to  the  Convention,  the  hearty  O.  K.  of  both 
the  Secretary  and  President  Roosevelt. 

The  correspondence  i's  as  follows : 

Copy  of  letter  sent  by  Robert  H.  Patton,  to  Hon.  Wade  H.  Ellis,  June 

22nd,  1908. 

Springfield,   111.,   June   22nd,    1908. 
Hon.  Wade  Ellis, 

Columbus,  Ohio. 
Dear  Sir : — 

I  have  noticed  from  the  public  press  that  you  drafted  the  platform  of  the 
Republican  convention,  and  I  would  like  to  know  what  interpretation  is  to 

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be  put  upon  the  expression  ''reaffirming  our  adherence  to  every  Republican 
doctr'ne  proclaimed  since  the  birth  of  the  party."  Did  the  authors  of  this 
platform  understand  that  they  were  reaffirming  the  sixteenth  plank  of  the 
platform  of  1872?  If  you  will  kindly  inform  me  upon  this  matter,  I  will 
appreciate  the  same.  Yours  respectfully, 

ROBERT  H.  PATTOX. 

Copy  of  reply  received  at  Springfield.  Illinois,  June  24th,   1908. 

Wade  H.   Ellis,  State  of  Ohio, 

Attorney  General.  Office  of  the  Attorney  General 

Columbus,  Ohio,  June  23rd,  1908. 
Mr.   Robert  H.    Patton, 
Springfield,  Illinois. 
Dear  Sir : — 

I  have  your  letter  of  June  22nd,  and  find  noth'ng  in  the  i6th  plank  of 
the  platform  of  1872  Avhich  is  inconsistent  with  good  Republican  doctrine. 

Yours  verv  trulv. 

WADE   H.   ELLIS. 

The  Raster  Resolution,  known  as  the  si.xteenth  plank  of  the  Republican 
National  Convention  Platform  adopted  at  Philadelph'a,  1872,  reads  as  folloAvs : 

"The  Republican  party  propose  to  respect  the  rights  reserved  by  the 
people  to  themselves  as  carefully  as  the  powers  delegated  by  them  to  the 
State  and  Federal  government.  It  disapproves  of  the  resort  to  unconstitu- 
tional laws  for  the  purpose  of  removing  evils  by  interfering  with  the  rights 
not  surrendered  by  the  people  to  either  the  State  or  National  government.'' 

Mr.  Herman  Raster  of  Ch'cago,  was  the  member  of  the  Platform  Com- 
mittee from  Illinois,  and  prepared  and  secured  the  adoption  of  this  plank  in 
the  platform.     In  explanation  of  its  meaning  he  wrote  the  following  letter: 

"Chicago,  111.,  Julv  19,   1872. 
"J.  M.  Miller. 

"Dear  Sir: — In  reply  to  yours  of  July  8th,  I  have  to  say  that  I  have 
written  the  sixteenth  resolution  of  the  Ph'ladelphia  platform,  and  that  it 
was  adopted  by  the  Platform  committee  with  the  full  and  explicit  understand- 
ing that  its  purpose  was  the  discountenancing  of  all  so-called  temperance 
(prohibitory)  and  Sunday  laws.  This  purpose  was  meant  to  be  expressed 
by  reference  to  the  rights  of  the  people  which  had  not  been  delegated  to 
e'ther  National  or  State  governments ;  it  being  assured  that  the  right  to  drink 
what  one  pleases  (being  responsible  for  the  acts  committed  under  the  in- 
fluence of  strong  drink),  and  the  right  to  look  upon  the  day  on  which  Chris- 
tians have  their  prayer  meetings  as  any  other  day,  were  among  the  rights 
not  delegated  by  the  people,  but  reserved  to  themselves. 

"Whether  this  explanation  of  the  meaning  of  the  resolution  w'll  satisfy 
you,  I  do  not  know.  But  as  you  want  to  serve  the  cause  of  truth  so  do  I  : 
and  what  I  have  said  here  in  regard  to  the  true  meaning  and  intent  of  the 
sixteenth  resolution  of  the  Philadelphia  platform  is  the  truth. 

"Very  respectfully  yours, 

"HERMAN  RASTER." 

On  the  same  day  in  which  th's  Raster  anti-Prohibition  plank  was  adopted 
the  United  States  Brewers'  Association  in  national  convention  endorsed  the 
Republican  party,  supported  it  at  the  polls  and  at  its  next  convention  June 
4,  1873,  at  Cleveland.  Ohio,  gloried  in  its  triumph,  which  President  Clausen 
voiced  in  these  words: 

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"The  last  Presidential  election  has  shown  us  what  unity  among  us  can 
do.     Let  our  votes  and  work  in  the  future  be  heard  from  in  every  direction." 

The  nearest  that  the  Republican  party  ever  came  to  adopting  a  Pro- 
hibition plank  was  in  1884,  when  Frances  E.  Willard,  President  of  the  Na- 
tional Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  made  an  eloquent  plea  before 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions  of  the  Republican  convention.  Miss  Willard's 
appeal  was  turned  down  with  jeer  and  insult,  her  written  appeal  literally 
trampled  under  foot,  and  the  only  response  that  the  platform  gave  was  a 
declaration  that  "the  Republ'cans  of  the  United  States  in  national  convention 
assembled,  renew  their  allegiance  to  the  principles  upon  which  they  have 
triumphed  in  six  successive  presidential  elections." 

In  1888  similar  presentations  were  made  before  the  Republican  National 
Convention  by  temperance  Republicans  but  provoked  even  less  attention. 

In  the  last  moments  of  the  convention  of  1888,  four  days  after  the 
adoption  of  the  platform,  the  following  resolution  was  hurriedly  presented 
by  C.  A.  Boutelle  and  adopted  without  opposition  : 

"The  first  concern  of  all  good  government  is  the  virtue  and  sobriety  of 
the  people  and  the  purity  of  the  home.  The  Republican  party  cordially 
sympathizes  with  all  wise  and  well-directed  efforts  for  the  promotion  of 
temperance   and    morality." 

This  was  adopted  June  25,  1888,  and  on  July  10,  1888.  Bonfort's  Wine 
and  Spirit  Circular,  the  leading  organ  of  the  liquor  trade  in  the  United  States, 
commenting  on  this  resolution  declared : 

"And  pray,  who  withholds  endorsement  from  such  propositions  as  this. 
In  behalf  of  the  wine  and  spirit  trade,  we  hereby  accord  this  declaration  our 
unreserved  approval.  The  man  who  would  do  otherwise  would  be  very  apt 
to  contend  that  two  and  two  d:d  not  make  four." 

"The  Boutelle  resolution,"  declared  the  Cincinnati  Commercial  Gazette, 
one  of  the  leading  Republican  papers  of  Ohio,  July  17,  1888,  "is  a  simple  piece 
of  sentimentalism,  equally  harmless  and  unnecessary.  If  it  had  meant  any- 
thing it  wouldn't  have  passed." 

This  is  the  record  of  the  National  Republican  party  on  the  Prohibition 
issue  from  1872  to  1908  inclusive. 

TAFT  AND  BRYAN  ON  PROHIBITION. 

Hon.  Wm.  H.  Taft,  Republican  candidate  for  President,  is  opposed  to 
Prohibition,  delivered  campaign  addresses  against  the  Oklahoma  Prohibition 
Const'tution  in  1907,  is  endorsed  by  Busch,  Jones  and  other  big  brewers,  and 
the  liquor  press  of  the  nation  are  quoting  with  approval  his  criticism  of 
Prohibition  laws  in  "Four  Aspects  of  Civic   Duty." 

He  championed  the  canteen,  and  in  1906  as  Secretary  of  War,  Mr.  Taft 
wrote  an  offic'al  appeal  to  Congress,  favoring  a  Government  appropriation 
of  $30,000  to  reimburse  saloon-keepers  of  San  Francisco,  whose  places  of 
business  daring  the  great  fire  had  been  destroyed  by  soldiers  in  an  attempt 
to  save  other  property.  This  astonishing  request  was  not  granted  by  Con- 
gress, and  was  indignantly  denounced  by  the  religious  press,  which  pointed 

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out  its  unfa'rness  and  partiality  when  the  similar  losses  sustained  by  scores 
of  churches  that  demanded   no  compensation  were  considered. 

He  has  never  spoken  a  friendly  word,  or  done  a  friendly  act  ptiblic  or 
otherwise,  on  behalf  of  the  Prohibition  cause.  He  received  strong  support 
for  the  Presidential  nomination  from  George  B.  Cox,  the  notorious  Republican 
saloon  boss  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  from  Hon.  A.  B.  Cummins,  the  anti- 
Prohibition  Governor  who  has  held  the  support  of  the  once-outlawed  liquor 
power  of  Iowa  ever  since  he  stabbed  her  state  Prohibition  law  to  death  in 
1892  with  the  infamous  mulct  compromise,  and  from  many  other  liquor 
politicians  of  the  party. 

He  secured  practically  the  und'-vided  support  of  the  delegates  from 
the  Republican  party  of  every  Southern  state,  which  now  stands  almost 
solidly  opposed   to   Prohibition   in   that  section. 

He  is,  by  his  own  testimony  a  total  abstainer,  fully  aware  of  the  peril 
in  drink,  but  silent  and  deliberately  inactive  in  the  hour  when  his  support 
would  tell   most   powerfully   for  the  reform. 


BRYAN  AN  ANTI-PROHIBITIONIST. 

Hon.  William  J.  Bryan  is  also  a  total  abstainer,  but  is  on  record  as 
having  voted  and  openly  stumped  the  state  against  Prohibition  in  Nebraska 
in  1889,  where  the  liquor  power  of  the  nation  concentrated  'As  forces  upon 
that  state,  padded  the  1890  census-returns  of  Omaha,  Lincoln,  and  other 
cities  to  enable  them  to  cover  up  wholesale  ballot-box  stuffing,  hired  thugs 
to  assault  Prohibition  speakers  and  intimidate  voters,  and  bought  up  the 
leading  newspapers  to  achieve  the  most  corrupt  victory  ever  won  by  the 
booze-trust. 

His  latest  att'tude  is  shown  in  the  recent  interview  in  the  Associated 
Press,  June    12. 

These  facts  are  detailed  as  follows  as  given  by  State  Chairman  Alonzo 
E.  Wilson  of  Illinois: 

"A  conspiracy  seems  to  exist  between  the  two  leading  national  parties 
to  ignore  the  liquor  question  in  their  platforms." 

"The  interview  with  William  J.  Bryan."  said  Air.  Wilson,  "given  to  the 
Associated  Press  and  published  in  many  papers  throughout  the  country  on 
June   12,  declared: 

"I  do  not  expect  it  (Prohibition)  to  be  made  an  issue  by  either 
the    Republican   or   the    Democratic    National    Convention." 

"Mr.  Bryan  says  he  has  received  many  letters  on  this  subject  and  has 
answered  them  all  the  same  way.  This  Bryan  letter,  one  of  which  was 
received  by  a  friend  in  Texas,  confirms  the  recent  interview  and  contains 
this  remarkable  sentence  : 

'I  think  that  I  am  sufficiently  informed  to  predict  that  the  Pro- 
hibition question  will  not  be  discussed  in  the  platforms  of  either  of 
the  leading  national   parties.' 

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"It  appears  that  there  is  an  understanding  between  the  two  leading- 
national  parties  to  ignore  this  qviestion  which  has  forced  itself  to  the  front 
in  American  politics  and  that  Mr.  Bryan  is  aware  of  this  fact." 

"Who  was  Mr.  Bryan's  informant?"  asked  Mr.  Wilson.  "Mr.  Bryan 
says  that  he  thinks  he  is  sufficiently  informed.  It  would  be  very  interesting 
to  the  voters  of  America  to  know  the  source  from  which  this  information 
came.  It  will  be  observed  that  Mr.  Bryan  says  it  is  sufficient.  I  call  upon 
Mr.  Bryan  to  explain  to  the  country  this  amazing  statement  in  both  his 
interview  and  letter.  If  he  declines  to  do  so  the  people  will  watch  with 
interest  the  action  of  the  two  great  conventions  which  will  settle  the  ques- 
tion as  to  whether  or  not  there  has  been  an  agreement  as  Mr.  Bryan 
intimates." 

Last  April,  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  Mr.  Bryan's  home,  went  through  a 
terrific  battle  for  local  Prohibition,  w^hich  was  lost  by  only  178  votes.  Mr. 
Bryan's  personal  support  might  easily  have  changed  the  result,  but  he  was 
not  heard  from  during  the  canvass. 

THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY   IN   NATIONAL  POLITICS. 

The  statesmanship,  purpose  and  fearless  unswerving  attitude  of  the  Pro- 
hibition party  as  regards  the  dominant  issue  of  its  continuous  thirty-nine 
years'  campaign  to  date,  may  be  graphically  summarized  in  the  follov^ng 
typical  declarations,  representing  every  national  platform  of  the  party  from 
1869   to    1904   inclusive: 

ORGANIZED  TO  PERPETUATE  DECLARATION  OF 
INDEPENDENCE. 

"The  Prohibition  Reform  party  of  the  United  States  was  organized  in 
the  name  of  the  people  to  revive,  enforce  and  perpetuate  in  the  Government 
the  doctrines  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence." — Platform,  1876. 

TRUE  TO  ITS  DOMINANT  ISSUE  FOR  THIRTY-NINE  YEARS. 

"That  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  beverages  is  a  dishonor  to  Christian 
civilization,  inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  society,  a  political  wrong  of 
unequalled  enormity,  subversive  of  the  ordinary  objects  of  government,  not 
capable  of_being  regulated  or  restrained  by  any  system  of  license  whatever, 
but  'imperatively  d_emanding  for  its  suppression  effective  legal  Prohibition, 
both  by  State  and  National  legislation. 

"That  in  view  of  this,  and  inasmuch  as  the  existing  political  parties 
either  oppose  or  ignore  this  great  and  paramount  question,  and  absolutely 
refuse  to  do  anything  toward  the  suppression  of  the  rum  traffic,  which  is 
robbing  the  nation  of  its  brightest  intellects,  destroying  internal  prosperity 
and  rapidly  undermining  its  very  foundations,  we  are  driven  by  an  imperative 
sense  of  duty  to  sever  our  connection  with  these  political  parties  and  organize 
ourselves  into  a  National  Prohibition  party,  having  for  its  primary  object 
the  entire  suppression  of  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  drinks." — Platform,  1869. 

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BUT  TWO  PARTIES  ON  THE  LIQUOR  ISSUE. 

"We  declare  that  there  are  but  two  real  parties,  today,  concerning  the 
liciour  traffic — perpetuationists  and  Prohibitionists ;  and  that  patriotism, 
Christianity,  and  every  interest  of  genuine  and  of  pure  democracy,  besides 
the  loyal  demands  of  our  common  humanity,  require  the  speedy  union,  in  one 
solid  phalanx  at  the  ballot-box,  of  all  Vvdio  oppose  the  liquor  traffic's  per- 
petuation, and  who  covet  endurance  for  this  republic." — Platform,  1900. 

PERIL  IN  OLD  PARTY  COMPETITION  FOR  LIQUOR  VOTE. 

"There  can  be  no  greater  peril  to  the  nation  than  the  existing  competi- 
tion of  the  Republican  and  Democratic  parties  for  the  liquor  vote.  Experience 
shows  that  any  party  not  openly  opposed  to  the  traffic  will  engage  in  this 
competition,  will  court  the  favor  of  the  criminal  classes,  will  barter  the  public 
morals,  the  purity  of  the  ballot  and  every  trust  and  object  of  good  govern- 
ment for  party  success.  Patriots  and  good  citizens  should,  therefore,  im- 
mediately withdraw  from  all  connection  with  these  parties." — Platform 
1872- 1884. 

WHEN  PROHIBITION  WILL  PROHIBIT. 

"We  call  attention  to  the  fact,  proved  by  the  experience  of  more  than 
fifty  years,  that  to  secure  the  enactment  and  enforcement  of  prohibitory  leg- 
islation, in  which  alone  lies  the  hope  of  the  protection  of  the  people  from  the 
liquor  traffic,  it  is  necessary  that  the  legislative,  executive  and  judicial 
branches  of  government  should  be  in  the  hands  of  a  political  party  in  har- 
mony with  the  Prohibition  principle,  and  pledged  to  its  embodiment  in  law, 
and  to  the  execution  of  those  laws." — Platform,  1904. 

THE  SCIENTIFIC  BASIS  OF  THE  PROHIBITION  CAUSE. 

"In  the  examination  and  discussion  of  the  temperance  question  it  has 
been  proven,  and  is  an  accepted  truth,  that  alcoholic  drinks,  whether  fer- 
mented, brewed,  or  distilled,  are  poisonous  to  the  healthy  human  body,  the 
drinking  of  which  is  not  only  needless  but  hurtful,  necessarily  tending  to 
form  intemperate  habits,  increasing  greatly  the  number,  severity  and  fatal 
termination  of  diseases,  weakening  and  deranging  the  intellect,  polluting  the 
affections,  hardening  the  heart  and  corrupting  the  morals,  depriving  many 
of  reason  and  still  more  of  its  healthful  exercise,  and  annually  bringing  down 
large  numbers  to  untimely  graves,  producing  in  the  children  of  many  who 
drink  a  predisposition  to  intemperance,  -insanity  and  various  bodily  and 
mental  diseases  causing  a  diminution  of  strength,  feebleness  of  vision,  fickle- 
ness of  purpose  and  premature  old  age,  and  -producing  to  all  future  genera- 
tions a  deterioration  of  moral  and  physical  character.  The  legalized  im- 
portation, manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks,  minister  to  their  uses 
and  teach  the  erroneous  and  destructive  sentiment  that  such  use  is  right, 
thus  teiiding  to  produce  and  perpetuate  the  above-mentioned  evils.  Alcoholic 
drinks  are  thus  the  implacable  enemy  of  man  as  an  individual." — Platform, 
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LABOR,  CAPITAL,  WAGES  AND  THE  LIQUOR  TRAFFIC. 

"We  earnestly  call  the  attention  of  the  mechanic,  the  miner  and  manu- 
facturer to  the  investigation  of  the  baneful  effects  upon  labor  and  dndustry 
of  the  needless  liquor  business.  It  will  be  found  the  robber  who  lessens 
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welfare.  Labor  and  all  legitimate  industries  demand  deliverance  from  the 
taxation  and  loss  which  this  traffic  imposes  ;  and  no  tariff  or  other  legislation 
can  so  healthily  stimulate  production,  or  increase  the  demand  for  capital  and 
labor,  or  insure  so  much  of  comfort  and  content  to  the  laborer,  mechanic  and 
capitalist,  as  would  the  suppression  of  this  traffic." — Platform,  1884. 

THE  IMMEDIATE  NECESSITY  OF  UNION  FOR  NATIONAL 

PROHIBITION. 

"The  manufacture,  exportation,  importation,  and  the  sale  of  alcoholic 
beverages  has  produced  such  social,  commercial,  industrial,  and  political 
wrongs,  and  is  now  so  threatening  the  perpetuity  of  all  our  social  and 
political  institutions,  that  the  suppression  of  the  same  by  a  national  party 
organized  therefor,  is  the  greatest  object  to  be  accomplished  by  the  voters 
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accomplished. 

"The  urgency  of  this  course  demands  the  union  without  further  delay 
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